Capricorn One, anyone?

Xinhua - English:

"The re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-6 sapcecraft, which blasted off on Oct. 12 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, touched down at the landing site in Siziwang Banner, at 4:33 am Oct. 17 (2033 GMT) following a five-day mission."

You can follow the link to the photos. I heard Matt Drudge on the radio Sunday night saying the photos look like fakes. You can judge for yourself. But, you would have to admit that if the fake space mission depicted in the film Capricorn One had used such a hokey looking spacecraft it could not have hoped to fool anyone. The Chinese spacecraft looks more like an illustration from Willy Ley's 1950s book By Spaceship To The Moon than anything the US or USSR/Russia have actually put into space.