On Wednesday, October 13, 2005, China launched its second manned flight from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Two Chinese astronauts, Fei Junlong (40 years old) and Nie Haisheng (41 years old) are known in Chinese as “yuhanghuan” which means “travelers of the universe”. They were launched aboard Shenzhou VI, or “Divine Vessel”. The Shenhou spacecraft are designed after the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The 5- day mission was to do experiments in space. The astronauts were able to move between the orbiter and the re-entry vehicle while in space. The spacecraft landed safely on a grassy plain in a remote area in northern Inner Mongolia. China is the third country to launch people into space. China has future plans for an orbiting space station and for a manned landing on the moon.