Chinese astronaut heard strange sound on his spacecraft exterior

[MCentaur]

Col. Yang Liwei must have heard George Clooney's character's ghost from "Gravity". And aren't Chinese astronauts called "taikonauts"?

 

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Chinese astronaut heard strange ‘knocking sound’ on his space capsule

Rob Waugh
Yahoo News UK
December 1, 2016

It’s a thought that would chill anyone to the marrow – being in a space capsule, and hearing a strange knocking sound on the metal

A Chinese astronaut revealed he is still haunted by the sound.

The noise – ‘like a hammer hitting an iron bucket’ – terrified China’s first astronaut on board the Shenzhen 5 spaceship in 2003, he said in an interview this week.

Astronaut Yang Liwei said, ‘A situation I have met in space is a knock that appeared from time to time.

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