Friday, November 5, 2010
China's manned spaceflight program
So China's kicked off plans for an unmanned lunar landing in 2013.... a manned space station by 2020... and who knows what else. While I applaud whomever has the determination to explore space to "boldly go", it's still sobering that the US will no longer hold the cards for the first "flags and footsteps." Does this bother anyone else on some level? What else are you hearing out there regarding China's growing space capabilities?
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It should bother a lot of people. Generally whoever can create the best space hardware can also create the best nuclear weapons and systems to deliver them (rockets and missles). Since the cold war ended, we have been almost blind in the US to the possibility that another nation could catch or surpass us technologically. Unless things change in the next 5 to 10 year, I would suggest we all brush up on our Chinese Language skills.
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