Shenzhou program costs

are the chinese being candid about their costs?

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...s/10203wna.xml

The Shenzhou program including four unmanned test flights and the construction of
major new facilities has so far cost 18 billion yuan ($2.2 billion), said Xie
Mingbao, director of China's Manned Space Engineering office.


Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

Hey, if I could get a man into orbit for only 2.2B, I would be proud too.

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Herm wrote in message . ..
are the chinese being candid about their costs?

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...s/10203wna.xml

The Shenzhou program including four unmanned test flights and the construction of
major new facilities has so far cost 18 billion yuan ($2.2 billion), said Xie
Mingbao, director of China's Manned Space Engineering office.


Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

"Herm" wrote in message
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are the chinese being candid about their costs?

No.


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go to Sydney? Didn't have the guts to
face the rest of us.

"Herm" wrote in message
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are the chinese being candid about their costs?

Maybe. They don't pay their workers at Europeans and American rates.

-Kim-