Top-secret X-37B mini-shuttle mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral

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september.org, Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:52:28, Jeff Findley
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Jeff Findley wrote:
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Nonsense! The old Soviet Union had a working ASAT system a long time
ago. China changed nothing.

Agreed. China is *decades* late to the party. Any assertion that the
Chinese presence in space will be a "game changer" is quite laughable.

China *being* in space is a game changer. Commercial being in space is
a game changer. For totally different reasons.

Please tell me how is China being in space a "game changer".

Because, sometime, it will wake up the USA's government and perhaps even
people.

The Chinese have, I think, nowhere exceeded the capabilities and
accomplishments that the USA has had. But in some sectors they have
reached or exceeded the capabilities that the USA has retained - manned
launches to orbit, for example. And the post-Mao Chinese have been
making continuous progress in all important (to them) technical fields.

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