Astronaut Yang Liwei said the noises sounded like a “hammer hitting an iron bucket” and left him feeling nervous and worried. Yang, now a major general in China’s air force, said it sounded ...

Astronaut Yang Liwei made the revelations in a recent interview while talking about the strange noises while aboard the Shenzhen 5 spaceship during a 21 hour mission in 2003. Although Liwei said ...

Yang Liwei said the strange noises left him feeling terrified CHINA'S first ever astronaut has revealed how he heard mysterious knocking on his spaceship during his maiden flight into space.

Liwei, who is China's first astronaut, admitted being baffled by the noise which he said appeared "suddenly without any reason", on more than one occasion, according to Xinhua news agency.

With a Long March-II-F carrier rocket pushing Shenzhou-5 into the orbit some 300 kilometers away from the Earth Wednesday morning, Yang Liwei, 38, turns out to be China's first astronaut in space.

This image shows the cover of the picture book "First Man". (Beijing Science and Technology Press/Handout via Xinhua) Authorized by Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut to enter space, the Beijing ...

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Yang Liwei, China's first space traveler, was born in Suizhong, Liaoning Province in June 1965. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1983 and is now Deputy Director of the China Astronaut ...