China Set to Launch Taikonaut

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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