Shenzhou 5 carried Yang Liwei into space for the first time.
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history
First attested in the writings of Zou Yan (邹衍, c. 305-240 BCE) as 赤县神州 - 'the Crimson County, the Divine Land'. Used through two millennia of poetry as a high-register name for China itself.
culture
China's crewed spacecraft series is named 神舟 ('Divine Vessel') - note the homophone but different second character. The name was deliberately chosen to echo this 神州 ('Divine Land').
