Yang Liwei
A historic day as China puts its first man in space. It is easy to underestimate the significance of this; USSR and USA having done it years ago. But the space race has stalled, and there was something about a hare and a tortoise.
bq. Once aloft, he [Yang Liwei] was said to be “reading a flight manual in the capsule of the Shenzhou V spacecraft and looked composed and at ease”.
Perhaps the Chinese government has no expectations of this working, and he hadn’t trained on how to get down.