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By continue their "own" path you mean take our tax money and spend it on shit we don't care about?

I know. All those fuckers wasting American tax dollars.when we could be spending them on important things.

If they make this work then in short order they could have a station with more inhabitable volume than ISS for a fraction of the cost.

That's great, but how are you going to get people to your new station?

To put people into space you have to send them up on a man rated launcher. The only people with those right now are NASA, RKA (Russia) and CNSA (China). There are no private launchers capable of putting people into orbit and won't be for a considerable amount of time.

Yeah, it's OK if we get technology from the commies, but we won't let the commies get technology from us!

I followed the link on the BBC article about this, supposedly to the Chinese Space Agency. But either someone has hijacked it, or something weird is happening. The BBC isn't like Slashdot - it would check the links before posting them, so I assume the site had the content they were expecting when they posted it.

"There is no Mars race between superpowers in the offing" [from the article]

Hmmm... unless the Chinese do actually manage what they're promising and make a manned flight within 8 years. Bet the senate won't be forcing cutbacks on NASA then

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