The Chinese astronauts returned safely some hours ago. They did a spacewalk too. US has not been doing anything else then space walking around the ISS the last few years.
Both will aim for the moon.
My congratulations to China, followed the whole thing live on CCTV9 (Hotbird) via satellite).
It was a perfect mission, their electronics works too :-)
I wouldn't say they exactly "equal" the US in space capability after one successful space walk. The US did that forty years ago without microprocessors. Don't get me wrong it was a good accomplishment, but I'll be more impressed when they leave orbit.
We've been there already. So I think we're still ahead.
via satellite).
I hope so. Its the same stuff we use.
Probably because 1) its newer, and 2) they don't have to spread their acquisition contracts around to states and companies based upon political influence. Its a military program in a country where, if you don't keep the customer happy they shoot you.
IMO, that policy would go a long way toward cleaning up Pentagon contracts as well.
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Neither space walks, no putting men on the moon, is inherently valuable. And nowadays, with so much technology behind us, neither is especially difficult; all it takes is a heap of money.
It's not worth it if you intend to bring the stuff home. But it's unimaginably valuable if it's to be used in space. The same energy costs apply to getting stuff from here to space, so raw materials that are already there are inherently valuable.
On a sunny day (Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
few years.
via satellite).
Well, they have to manage zillions of people, give them some goal. Sure the Great Leader did read a pre-determined text today to the astronauts, I have seen it, did he use auto-cue? I dunno, he spoke in a telephone. The astronauts clearly read from some piece of paper.
But remember, even Neil Armstrong did say 'small step...' and that was all studied in.
In the US it is exactly the same, just you do not know it. You are kept busy voting between Democrats and Republicanions, makes you think you have a choice, while being plundered by a Saudi mole that they made you vote for. Now he takes away your life savings if those are in a bank... The media are under state control. I can tell you about the media, I worked there in head control centre man years. There is a telephone, and if that one rings you dance to its tune. It is a straight line to the government.
Running a country, with the well-being of so many at stake, requires this sort of discipline. I was suited for it then, not now I think, but they have plenty who can do it with full conviction. Also is there an other way? Politics is about control. It is sad that some people (somebody here called ThomThom or something), just completely makes the crap their own, and start parroting the sentences. But that sort of politics is aimed at the common people, THEY are the majority, the intelligentsia never was.
China should be respected for having so many people live together in peace. And making such a great progress technically, economically, and even politically (after Mao).
Push it however it needs pushed to get it into an earth or other planet's orbit, land on it, mine it, and fire parcels of gold to the moon as a standby platform.
It should. At least part of it is the same thing NASA used. They bought most of their telemetry equipment from Microdyne. They would have bought more, but the Clinton era politicians changed their mind and stopped further shipments.
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