Launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center; landing on the grasslands of the Gobi Desert, in central Inner Mongolia (in Dorbod Xi).

First Chinese manned spaceflight; President Hu Jintao attended the launch; Yang's first message from space was, that "everything goes smoothly and that he felt good"; during the mission he had two resting times of each three hours; the Shenzhou is based on the three-seat Russian Soyuz-capsule, but with extensive modifications.