China Spacewalkin'

[insanebikerboy]

I knew China was pursuing space flight but I didn't realize they were this far along. Maybe the Star Wars program from back in the day wasn't such a bad idea after all?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427786,00.html

 

[Mumbles]

All are fighter pilots....no suprise. I wouldn't be suprised if the PRC has a moon mission in the next 10-20 years.

 

[nugget81]

New space race perhaps? Anyone? Anyone? Probably just wishful thinking....

 

[scoolbubba]

yea...too bad we space walked in the fifties and landed on the moon in the 60's, or this race would be too close to call.

 

[Blutonski816]

yea...too bad we space walked in the fifties and landed on the moon in the 60's

dude...
both in sixties...
Ed White on June 3 of '65...

Not to mention Leonov's spacewalk 2 months before...

 

[scoolbubba]

sorry, my history was weak sauce on that one, i couldn't remember if it was early 60's or late 50's on the spacewalk. Either way, we did it almost 50 years ago.

 

[Mumbles]

sorry, my history was weak sauce on that one, i couldn't remember if it was early 60's or late 50's on the spacewalk. Either way, we did it almost 50 years ago.

We did.....It is still a major technological feat for any nation that can do it, including the PRC.

 

[PropStop]

We did.....It is still a major technological feat for any nation that can do it, including the PRC.

Especially them - when's the last time a GOOD product came out of China?

 

[Mumbles]

^Definately don't buy babymilk made in China right now!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSgRfVdQ3cAI&refer=worldwide

 

[Mumbles]

Especially them - when's the last time a GOOD product came out of China?

I like these Chinese products...

 

[porw0004]

Jokes aside (regardless of how fucking awesome General Tso's chicken is), I wouldn't be overly suprised if there was a 2nd space race, especially one with more overt military undertones than the last one. I don't have any real evidence to point to beyond their instigation of ASAT tests, it's just a gut feeling that they wouldn't have many reservations against the further militarization of space.

 

[voodooqueen]

I believe that Star Wars technology was very cool stuff.

(Maybe they serve melamine frosted flakes to their astronauts.)

 

[Mumbles]

Jokes aside (regardless of how fucking awesome General Tso's chicken is), I wouldn't be overly suprised if there was a 2nd space race, especially one with more overt military undertones than the last one. I don't have any real evidence to point to beyond their instigation of ASAT tests, it's just a gut feeling that they wouldn't have many reservations against the further militarization of space.

Believe it....the China has an active ASAT program.

 

[MIDNAdmiral]

HURRAY! Our technology will take the Chinese to the moon!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427562,00.html
Lousy spies.:icon_rage

 

[a2b2c3]

Yeah we made it to the moon.

Then people thought it was routine and stopped caring so we stopped going back and also let the technology die. No one today knows how those Apollo rockets worked. The technology was placed in mothballs and the people who created it grew older and faded. We once made it to the moon in 8 years. Bush asks that we go back by 2015. He said that in 2004. Why should it take us 11 years to do today what we once did in 8 from scratch?

Did we have a race once before? Yes. Have we forgotten most of what we learned? Yes. Is it sad that it is going to take us longer to do today what we've done before? Yes.