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Chinese In Space
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  Joined: 2005-04-24 Points: 648 | Chinese media reports say the country has begun training six pilots for spaceflight, two of whom will enter orbit on September's Shenzhou VI mission in the next step in the country's lofty space ambitions. "China should accelerate its space development, such as by launching manned spaceflights every year," Huang Chunping, the man who pushed the launch button for China's first manned spaceflight in 2003 was quoted as saying by website Chinanews.com. China will be ready to set up its own orbiting space station in 2010, Mr Huang was quoted as telling Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1406940.htm |
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When is the flight scheduled for in September ???
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2005-01/19/content_2483932.htm
(I machine translated the article and am guessing at the translation's meaning here)
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this article seems to agree with the October estimate. There's still the chance of a disaster and loss of face, so I doubt there will be much news coverage until after it succeeds.
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update on yahoo news
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/09/26/china.space.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China's second manned space mission -- and its first to carry two astronauts -- is due to launch on October 13, weather permitting, and return five days later, a state media report said.
The launch of Shenzhou VI is scheduled for 11 a.m. at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base, in the Gobi desert in northern China, with the mission lasting 119 hours if all goes according to plan, the state-run China News Service reported on Sunday.
It said midday was chosen as the launch time to improve safety and allow launch personnel enough time for final preparations, unlike some past unmanned missions that pushed off in the night and pre-dawn hours.
It said the astronauts would have sleeping bags, for greater comfort, and would be able to heat up their food, wash and take rests. Yang's journey in Shenzhou V was much less comfortable since he was confined to the re-entry module with little space to move around.
guess it launched today (a day ahead of schedule)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051012/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_space_china_craft
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/10/11/china.space.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Satellite Map of Launch Site
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opps I wasn't logged in.
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that took me about 10 seconds to understand. *doh*
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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/shenzhou5_launch_031014.html
This is quite a momentous occasion.
China is only the third country to put a man
in space.The other two are Russia & America.
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WOCCA wrote:
Not quite the 70's, wilson888
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took a step
out of the Apollo 11 lunar craft onto the moon.
.....
That's one small step for man,
... one giant leap for mankind
Click the link below to listen to nearly four
& a half minutes of Neil Armstrong's famous
speech when he set foot on the moon.
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_9.html
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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
...(Sea of Tranquility, lunar surface, July 20, 1969)
On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from earth, gave a brief statement before stepping off the Eagle landing module & onto the moon. Back on earth, close to a billion people were listening. A moment later, Armstrong put his left foot into the powdery lunar surface, took a few steps, & humanity had walked on the moon.
Another astronaut, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin , joined him a few minutes later. Together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, & spoke with U.S. President Richard M. Nixon via Houston.
By early the next morning, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. They slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. on July 21, the Eagle began its ascent back to the Apollo 11 command module.
Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon--July 1969 A.D--We came in peace for all mankind." Later that afternoon, Aldrin and Armstrong successfully docked with the command module, which was piloted by a third astronaut, Michael Collins On July 24, the three men returned to earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
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Point taken....
No point arguing with a mod....
Yes... in 1969. Sorry! But I think they have Moon Mission right into the early 70s, right?
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The Space Race ...
grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful nations after World War II. For a half-century, the two superpowers competed for primacy in a global struggle pitting a democratic society against totalitarian communism.
Space was a crucial arena for this rivalry. Before a watchful world, each side sought to demonstrate its superiority through impressive feats in rocketry and spaceflight. Secret satellites kept a wary eye on the adversary.
At the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia agreed to build a space station and pursue other joint ventures in space. A contest that began in fear and enmity has become a partnership.
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Exploring the Moon
For detailed mission information on both Soviet
& American manned & unmanned programs ...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/moon.html
The six Apollo landings, which took place between
1969 and 1972, provided American scientists with
huge amounts of lunar data in the form of photography,
surface & orbital experiment results, sample collections
and surface operations
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wtanaka wrote:
Did you count in English or Chinese?
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When I walked into the university canteen for lunch on Wednesday, there were quite a few students gathered & watching the Chinese space mission on the overhead television sets.
Later on CCTV9, there were discussions by Chinese & American professors.
Is this event getting a lot of coverage in Hong Kong as well, wilson888
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There are coverage here in Hong Kong but I doubt it is as feverish as in China.
However, there are quite a few TV programs devoted to the launch.
We like to see them when they come back and made them into Canton-Pop singers.
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wilson888 wrote:
I love the little space man in that image.
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BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China, which launched its first manned space mission just two years ago, plans to put a man on the moon around 2017 and investigate what may be the perfect source of fuel, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Two Chinese astronauts orbited Earth for five days last month in the Shenzhou VI and China was now developing new craft up to the Shenzhou X, eyeing a permanent space station and an eventual moon mission, state media said this week.
"China will make a manned moon landing at a proper time, around 2017," leading scientist Ouyang Ziyuan was quoted by the Southern Metropolis News as saying.
The project also includes setting up a moon-based astronomical telescope, measuring the thickness of the moon's soil and the amount of helium-3 on the moon -- an element some researchers say is a perfect, non-polluting fuel source.
Some scientists believe there is enough helium-3 on the moon to power the world for thousands of years.
"We will provide the most reliable report on helium-3 to mankind," Ouyang said.
The United States unveiled a $104 billion plan in September to return Americans to the moon by 2018. Its Apollo program carried the first humans to the moon in 1969.
China's first lunar orbiter could blast off as early as 2007, coinciding with its third manned space trip in which possibly three men would orbit Earth in Shenzhou VII and conduct a space walk.
China was designing a rocket that could carry a payload of 25 tons, up from a present limit of eight tons, the Beijing News reported this week, though it would unlikely be ready for another six-and-a-half years.
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