China is getting ready to send a man into space so he could walk in space, but first they have to make a space suit

China is on schedule to have a man walk in space for the first time next year after engineers finished the design of a home-grown suit for the mission, state press reported Monday…”The design of the space suits has been completed but they still need to be tested,” the chief consultant to Shenzhou VII mission, Qi Faren, said as he outlined the 2008 schedule, according to the Beijing Times.

Huang, a leading rocket engineer on the project, meanwhile told the Beijing Morning Post that two astronauts may have a chance to walk in space.

via Seed