October 16, 2003
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| Yang Liwei during a welcome-home ceremony. Credit: AP - click to enlarge. | |
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"I did not see our Great Wall from space," Lt. Col. Yang Liwei said in an interview with China Central Television. The transcript was released Friday.
The report said Yang's interviewer asked about the Great Wall after viewers left messages on the broadcaster's Internet site asking him to verify the popular belief that the Great Wall can be seen from space.
The wall stretches thousands of miles across northern China but is only a few yards wide.
Yang said he didn't see it, but added that the Earth was "very beautiful."
The report didn't say whether Yang could see any other artificial structures like the pyramids of Egypt or U.S. Interstate 95.
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