After a decade of preparation, China will launch its first human being into space on Oct. 15 in a 90-minute flight that will orbit the Earth once, a major Chinese Web site reported. Sina.com implied that the flight, the Shenzhou 5, would carry only one human being in its bid to make China the world's third spacefaring nation. The single-orbit flight will take place Oct. 15, Sina.com said, quoting Phoenix Television, a Hong Kong broadcaster with close ties to the Beijing leadership that is run by a former Chinese military officer. That would be a day after the closing of the Chinese Communist Party's plenum, a major political meeting.

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