Great Wall and Great Story

Despite the broken parts, the Great Wall of China is still among world's most noteworthy and amazing structures, that is why in 1987, it was included in UNESCO's list of World Heritages. The Great Wall is about 6,700 kilometers in distance expanding from eastern part to the western part of Northern China, and is the most extensive human-made structure in the whole world. Many also deem that the Great Wall is the only human-made structure on earth that is noticeable from the moon.

However, some scientists professed that the myth of the Great Wall being viewed from the moon derived during the time it was being built. An emperor had this inspiration that he could make something, something that is so glorious that it could be viewed outside the earth. Today, the emperor's vision had been interwoven with facts and is now widespread in the perception of the people. There are individual astronauts who claim that they did not see the Wall from space, such as astronaut William Pogue who at first thought he saw it from the Skylab then fathomed that he was looking at Grand Canal. Even Yang Liwei, a Chinese astronaut, claimed that he never saw it, and renowned astronaut Neil Armstrong also professed the same thing. Even his fellow astronauts who used to revolve around China during daytime claimed that they did not distinguish the Great Wall even once.