Today, China launched its Shenzhou-7 spacecraft at 9:10 in the evening, Beijing time. Also today, the official Xinhua News Agency released and then withdrew a story, dated this coming Saturday, that purports to say what happened after the craft’s 30th orbit. Of course, Shenzhou-7 will not have orbited the planet 30 times until this weekend. The article is full of details, plus quotes from the “taikonauts,” China’s name for its heroic workers in space.
As they say in communist societies, the future is always certain.