China: The Long March Into Space

Inside a spaceship at Jiuquan Launch Facility, three men sit on top of 500 tons of explosive liquid rocket fuel. A controlled explosion will blast them three hundred kilometers into space, and into the record books. This is China's next great leap into space. It is bolstered by visions of long-distance manned missions to Mars, the moon, and asteroids, to dominate the next century's space race.