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Chinese will practice docking with space module
http://www.space.com/12647-china-spa...-1-launch.html
It's not really a space station, more a pressurised bathroom-sized room in space. My guess is that the Chinese are practicing docking to assemble a large spaceship in space with which they'll do a manned flyby of Mars or even a landing on Phobos. It's the logical thing to do and would leapfrog the U.S. manned Moon landings. In addition, to upstage the Chinese the U.S. would be forced to perform a manned Mars landing which would be extremely expensive and dangerous. Chances are that the Chinese would therefore keep their space crown for quite a few years, maybe decades. If I were the U.S. I'd start planning for a manned Mars flyby soon... |
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If I were the U.S. I'd start planning for a manned Mars flyby soon... and other than spending boatloads of borrowed money just what would a manned landing on mars accomplish? ultimately we would borrow money from china to go to mars to compete with china........ putting our country futher in debt. besides which such a extravagance is DOA given the economic realties of today. Mr and Mrs voters, sadly we are cutting SS, raising the retirement age to 80, ending medicare as we know it...... etc etc etc. but on a brite note were spending a few trillion on a flags and footprints trip to mars........ thats not going to fly in so many ways......... |
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Chinese will practice docking with space module
On 18/08/2011 2:25 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
http://www.space.com/12647-china-spa...-1-launch.html It's not really a space station, more a pressurised bathroom-sized room in space. My guess is that the Chinese are practicing docking to assemble a large spaceship in space with which they'll do a manned flyby of Mars or even a landing on Phobos. It's the logical thing to do and would leapfrog the U.S. manned Moon landings. In addition, to upstage the Chinese the U.S. would be forced to perform a manned Mars landing which would be extremely expensive and dangerous. Chances are that the Chinese would therefore keep their space crown for quite a few years, maybe decades. If I were the U.S. I'd start planning for a manned Mars flyby soon... Yet another anonymous coward. |
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If I were the U.S. I'd start planning for a manned Mars flyby soon... Spam in a can if the means is a slow boat chemical engine. Chinese spam in can.............................Trig |
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