January 7, 2003

  •  A pair of stuffed toy panda bears floated past the camera as the two men, dressed in coveralls with Chinese flags on the chest, donned space suits in the background.The broadcast added to signs of China’s growing confidence in its effort to become the third nation, after Russia and the United States, able to send its own astronauts into orbit.

    From this news article: Rare glimpse at Chinese astronauts

    Our space race cartoon could in fact, be very timely…