The Chinese government has strenuously denied Internet rumors that a photo it claims was taken by its first lunar probe are simply reprints of NASA photos.
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has called the photo proof of China's recent advances in the realms of space and technology. But internet users in China have commented that the photo is similar to a NASA image taken in 2005. However, one of the chief scientists who worked on the lunar probe, Ouyang Ziyuan, was quoted by the Beijing News as saying: "China's first moon photo is absolutely not a fake ... a careful examination will tell some small differences."
In 2003 China became the third nation, after the Soviet Union and the US, to put a man in space using its own rocket. China has claimed that it is to launch another manned mission to space next year, which will involve a space walk.
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