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the Great Ocean two shores, two realms the western shore: jade the eastern shore: coca-cola above: the realm that calls on the eastern shore you, father, birthed the rocket: their door that clanged behind you was not lacquered in vermilion on the western shore renaissance of flying dragons you, midwife, let fly a new moon you, bamboo too often bent by the rage of typhoons Feng Jishen smiles with Qian Xuessen to see the Fifth Academy & Seventh Ministry fly Dong Fang Hong & Shenzhou: build from Jiuquan a silk road to the sky. Feng Jishen - inventor of rocket, 970 AD Qian Xuessen - father of Chinese space programme, victimized under McCarthyism and the Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution. Fifth Academy & Seventh Ministry - code names for space department Dong Fang Hong - 1st Chinese satellite Shenzhou - 1st Chinese manned spacecraft Jiuquan - China’s Cape Canaveral
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