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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.
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China launches its first manned space mission15.10.2003
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Shenzhou 5 was the first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program, launched on October 15, 2003. The Shenzhou spacecraft was launched on a Long March 2F launch vehicle. There had been four previous flights of unmanned Shenzhou missions since 1999. China became the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after the Soviet Union (later, Russia) and the United States.
