http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...on-launch.html
While US and Europen space programs are cut back ever more through lack of money, it seems China is only to willing to step in and take over!
How come that America and Europe only seem to have money left to save banks?
Through egotism, ignorance and neglect we keep losing more and more of the ground our civilisations made good in the last century!
It's simple, they own us and can afford to go into space. If you don't like it talk to your congressmen, they did it!
wow, she's a hottie for an astronaut!
well, they were only caving to the pressure and the perks from all those lobbyists. maybe we should cut them a little slackOriginally Posted by Terry
Maybe the Chinese will answer the question that NASA is so reticent to address...
Which question is that?
I probably shouldn't say, since NASA doesn't want to talk about it.
And, its a family-friendly website.
Something about human nature, birds, bees, flowers, trees.
if you're reffering to "bumpin' ugly bits" in space, it's been done on the ISS. it was mentioned in an article i read a few months ago, but they didn't go into any detail.
One thing about space travel; it totally eliminates the pretenders. It's a "put your money where your mouth is" sort of proposition. I like that.
Now we're beginning to see a greater variety of participants. Certainly the Chinese Government's involvement is predictable, and they will do predictable things with their program. What really interests me are the privately funded groups that are beginning to go up.
While the American and Soviet/Russian governments are most cretainly not "out of it" by any stretch of the imagination, I think a growing and divergant variety of participants are the making of a potential Rennaissance in human activety beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
I'm keen to see what it all looks like twenty years down the road.
were it up to me, if i were king, i would make space exploration a high level priority. i just feel that it's the responsibility of all men. we should do what we can to promote the species.
there are way too many benefits to be realized from it to ignore it as we have.
just my opinion.
I agree with magoo! How can you think China is ahead of us when it comes to space flight? Glenn orbited the earth in 1962, 50 years ahead of China. We had 3 astronauts in orbit in 1968 aboard Apollo 7, on Christmas Day in 1968 Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon! 45 years ahead of China. Our first space station, Skylab, flew in 1973, 39 years ahead of China. In between Apollo 8 and Skylab, we had 12 men walk on the moon. China is still working in LEO!! We've had the Voyager spacecraft photograph all the outer planets years ago, and the 2 Voyagers are leaving our solar system. China is still working in LEO. In 6 to 7 weeks, we are going to attempt to land a new rover on Mars, which is the size of an SUV. That would make 3 rovers we have on Mars, plus the spacecraft in Martian orbit. What does China have that compares to the Hubble telescope?
Boeing and others are working on a new manned spacecraft for deep space missions. Let the commercial companies do the LEO missions, free's up money for NASA to do some major things again in the near future.
Is China going to take the lead in space? Like so much BS, they are years behind us. Everytime they do something in their space program, all we have to say is "Been there, done that! 40 to 50 years ago",lol
its still a bit silly to rule them out completely though, just look how quickly china has gone from nothing, to a world business superpower. Sure they're doing stuff america has already done, but they seem to do everything twice as fast for half the cost! When you think they only launched their first astronaut into space in 2003 its pretty impressive, and their progress isnt being fueled by the fear that russia will get their first and rain nukes from space on em
yes i know i cant spell half the time! Thank you kindly to those few who pointed that out
this sort of thinking is america's #1 enemy, and it will be the downfall of this nation.
I"m not dirextly attacking China's Space program, I just think its ignorant to get all worked up in a new space race. Space equipment is not cheap, flight operations are plenty expensive too. NASA already pays for the Russian flights to the ISS, Russia can't afford it, or won't split the costs. All this has a direct impact as to how fast we can move ahead with new equipment and new flights. Boeing is already working on the next generation of equipment for manned flights. In a year and a half they begin testing this new capsule with some unmanned flights. Cooperation in space flights make more sense. A lot cheaper then one country doing it alone. That's how the ISS program worked.
China hasn't developed anything for space from scratch. Its all based on Russian equipment. If they designed and built there own, I would be more impressed. That's what makes our program light years ahead of theirs, we built and designed our own.
If the US isn't working in this area fast enough for the rest of the world, I suppose their governments can start their own space agencies.
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