manned flight

China is aiming for its third manned flight next year with two astronauts making space walks, a state-run newspaper reported .The Beijing Morning Post quoted Huang Chunping, chief consultant for China's manned launching vehicle system, as saying the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft would be ready this year.China's first manned space launch in 2003 made it only the third country to send a human into orbit on its own, after the former Soviet Union and the United States.A second space flight carrying two astronauts took place in October 2005.