The space program of the People's Republic of China b. ^ Information for mainland China only. Hong Kong, Macau and territories under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, are excluded is currently directed by the CNSA The China National Space Administration is the national space agency of the People's Republic of China responsible for the national space program. It is responsible for planning and development of space activities. CNSA and China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) assumed the authority over space development efforts previously held by the Ministry of. Its technological roots can be traced back to the late 1950s, when China began a rudimentary ballistic missile program in response to perceived American (and, later, Soviet) threats. However, the first Chinese manned flight program only began in earnest several decades later, when a crash program of technological development culminated in Yang Liwei Yáng Lìwěi is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program, and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space's successful 2003 flight aboard Shenzhou 5 Shenzhou 5 — was the first human spaceflight mission of the People's Republic of China (PRC), launched on October 15, 2003. The Shenzhou spacecraft was launched on a Long March 2F rocket booster. There had been four previous flights of unmanned Shenzhou missions since 1999. China became the third country in the world to have independent human. This dramatic achievement made China only the third country to independently send humans into space.

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