China's rocket Shenzhou 6

With much respect and salutation to China's space development ever since 1960s, once again it marked down on the Asian history that China has sent 2 more humans to space for 5 days.

As how respectful to China space development is " Shenzhou is part of a larger Chinese program to launch an independent space station and to land taikonauts (astronauts) on the Moon. China is not part of the current 16-nation International Space Station consortium led by NASA. "

Furthermore, their future plan are "have a man perform a spacewalk during the future Shenzhou 7 flight, probably in 2007." , "build a space station in orbit starting around 2009" , "land another unmanned probe on the Moon by 2020 to collect soil samples and return them to Earth in preparation for a human moon base. "

For more further and interesting information:
China's Astronauts
Chinese Space Program