Reply With QuoteGuno צְבִי (10-15-2021), Jack (10-15-2021)
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China’s Ambitious Plans in Space: The Moon, Mars and Beyond
China is nearing completion of it's space station. Initially, the US had blocked China from participation in the International Space Station so China built its own. Like the US, China has offered to allow other nations to participate, which they are...as long as you can speak Chinese.
Based on funding and plans, China will beat the US to the Moon and Mars.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/china-mars-space.html
The missions are meant to lay the foundation for a lunar research base and visits by astronauts, or taikonauts, as the Chinese call them, in the 2030s. So far, only the American Apollo programs have put people on the moon.
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, announced this spring that it would work with China on the construction of a lunar research station using its Luna spacecraft in coordination with coming Chang’e missions. The first Russia mission could launch as soon as October. Future missions between the two countries will aim to bring back lunar samples and land the first building blocks of the base by 2030...
...In addition to the possibility of a future crewed mission to Mars, China is planning a single, 10-year mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and pass by a comet. It has also proposed orbiters for Venus and Jupiter. In 2024, it plans to launch an orbiting telescope similar to the Hubble, which first launched in 1990.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (10-15-2021), Jack (10-15-2021)
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The Chinese space program isn't copy of NASA; they are using modern tech and inventing new tech.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/opini...ger/index.html
Why China's space program could overtake NASA
China has a good chance of becoming the dominant space power in the 21st century, and it's not just looking to copy NASA on the way to the top. Instead, the country is paying close attention to what innovative US companies like SpaceX are doing as well. To get ahead in space, communism is learning from capitalism...
...All the while, China is racing across a number of other fronts in space, from building an orbital space station to maturing anti-satellite capabilities in space to establishing a base on the moon.
As China advances in space, NASA has spent more than $20 billion building a large rocket, the Space Launch System, that could soon be obsolete. And flying this single-use rocket is so expensive that, in combination with its Artemis program, NASA could exceed its congressional funds by more than 43%.
NASA could also abandon the International Space Station in a few years. Meanwhile, China is training European astronauts and teaching them Chinese so that they might visit its large, modular space station. Some of these European astronauts may subsequently join the China-Russia lunar exploration effort.
dukkha (10-15-2021), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2021)
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First Chinese chick to the Heavenly Palace:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/china...hnk/index.html
China's new space station gets its first female astronaut
The first woman assigned to work on China's new space station will be aboard when the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft blasts off early Saturday local time, in what's set to be a landmark moment for female astronauts and the country's rapidly expanding space program.
Wang Yaping, 41, is part of a three-member team heading for the Tiangong -- or Heavenly Palace -- space station, where she is expected to become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk.
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Will they sell me a timeshare by the sea of tranquility? I have my beach chair, paperback and umbrella.
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You have to learn Chinese first.Originally Posted by Micawber
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They speak reasonable broken English at Lunar Mandarin restaurants.You have to learn Chinese first.
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I strongly doubt you'll run into many Chinese waiters up there.
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
I bet the moon has oil and valuable minerals and resources.
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We have already been to the moon!
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Um it's more than that.
Doc Dutch (10-15-2021), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2021)
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From Dutch gasbags post
Based on funding and plans, China will beat the US to the Moon and Mars.
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
They are planning to establish bases on moon and maybe Mars. Have we ever done that?
Honoring my oath
Agreed but anti-science, anti-vaxxers are the poorly educated Trump people. They have no desire to go to the Moon because Trump doesn't want to go there.Um it's more than that.
AProudLefty (10-15-2021), Cypress (10-15-2021), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2021)
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Good Hon Su Yoke and Chicken Lo Mein are needed EVERYWHERE.
Best wishes to our Asian neighbors in their efforts to deliver these necessities.
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Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
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Question: Do you think they'll be able to do it? I asked because apparently their site runs on 56k modem.
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