China Set to Launch Taikonaut

[robert arndt]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3610657&section=news

Rob

[Gordon]

Godspeed, little Asian guy.

[Chad Irby]

Hope it works out. We need some fresh folks in space. Keeps things
interesting.

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Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

[David Bromage]

Chad Irby wrote:
> Hope it works out. We need some fresh folks in space. Keeps things
> interesting.

Hear hear. Let's put politics aside for 14 orbits and wish them well.

Given that the USA and former USSR successfully did this 40 years ago
with much more primative technology than you can buy off the shelf
today, any thoughts on whether China has has the resources and willpower
to go to the moon by the end of the decade?

Cheers
David

[phil hunt]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:05:29 +1000, David Bromage > wrote:
>Chad Irby wrote:
> > Hope it works out. We need some fresh folks in space. Keeps things
> > interesting.
>
>Hear hear. Let's put politics aside for 14 orbits and wish them well.
>
>Given that the USA and former USSR successfully did this 40 years ago
>with much more primative technology than you can buy off the shelf
>today, any thoughts on whether China has has the resources and willpower
>to go to the moon by the end of the decade?

If they think the moon is important, yes.

They are building their own version of the Hubble space telescope.
They are also getting in on the Galileo positioning system project.
I think they have decided that space is important enough to make a
big effort for.

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[John Penta]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:05:29 +1000, David Bromage
> wrote:

>Chad Irby wrote:
> > Hope it works out. We need some fresh folks in space. Keeps things
> > interesting.
>
>Hear hear. Let's put politics aside for 14 orbits and wish them well.
>
>Given that the USA and former USSR successfully did this 40 years ago
>with much more primative technology than you can buy off the shelf
>today, any thoughts on whether China has has the resources and willpower
>to go to the moon by the end of the decade?

Who knows? Who cares?

Right now...I'm celebrating, quietly.

<looks to China's general direction> Welcome to space, my friends.
It's dangerous sometimes, always risky...But it's a hell of an
experience. Now...

See the moon?

Race ya...First one there and back wins!

John

Feeling like a little kid....Wooowwwwwwwww...8-O

[robert arndt]

Chad Irby > wrote in message >...
> Hope it works out. We need some fresh folks in space. Keeps things
> interesting.

So far so good...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_828894.html

Hope re-entry is just as smooth. Space, for now, is the one place
humanity can put its petty differences aside. The Chinese should be
proud of their accomplishment and we should be proud for them even if
our own program is on hold right now...

Rob

[David Bromage]

Yama wrote:
> Chinese manned space program apparently is going to include various
orbital
> docking and assembly test projects, and they're planning for a Mir-class
> space station by the end of the decade. Still very ambitious, if true.

According to yesterday's news reports, they plan an unmanned lunar probe
within 3 years. Could easily put a man there by the end of the decade.

Cheers
David

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

"Yama" > writes:

> What I've read, they are going to do that - with unmanned probes, similar to
> ones Soviets launched in the '60s.

Similar to the penetrator type that is developed in Japan also to
study the moon, asteroids, and moons of other planets.

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G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan