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 May 19 2006, 03:27 PM
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Paolo Ulivi has an amazing Web page on Chinese plans for the Moon and planets here
(through early 2004): http://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/chinamoo.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 19 2006, 04:10 PM
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It's easy to talk the talk. The US and USSR also drew all kinds of pictures of Moon bases, in the 1950s and 60s. I'll believe in these bold plans when I see more concrete achievement. Right now, China's space program is still relatively small and inexperienced.
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May 20 2006, 03:59 PM
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China made a decision, about 20 years ago, to catch up with the industrial capabilities of the West. To do so without destroying their economy, they have ignored basic controls on pollution and environmental damage. Methinks the Chinese are aware that they will have to spend a lot of money retrofitting their industries to protect what's left of their environment before they can commit the kind of funding needed to place people on the Moon -- hence their very slow and careful progress in their manned spaceflight program.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jul 5 2006, 01:04 AM
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A top official in China's space program has set 2024 for the country's first moonwalk, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Monday.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13410739/ The mission would kick off in earnest next year, the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po paper said, when China launches an unmanned 2-ton lunar satellite in March or April to orbit and survey the lunar surface. |
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Aug 4 2006, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE (Stephen @ May 19 2006, 03:15 AM)  "Following the Chang’e-I orbiter mission, Luan said, is landing an unmanned vehicle on the moon by 2010 and collecting samples of lunar soil with an unmanned vehicle by 2020. "'Only after we finish the three phases can we carry out the manned satellite project to probe the moon', Luan stated." ====== Stephen Recently, the media has experienced another cascade of reports on the possibility of a Chinese manned lunar program. Translations of an article from a Hong Kong newspaper have hit the wires, and even found their way back into English-language versions of mainland Chinese publications. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Lunar_To..._China_999.html China's space exploration plans include not only missions to the moon but also Mars http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/...ina.space.reut/ |
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