China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005

cosyne writes: "CNN.COM has this article on China's space program planning to send a man to the moon. 'The mission is part of Beijing's plans to create a space industry and earn the prestige of joining the United States and Russia as the only nations to have sent humans into space.' I wonder if they'll make it before the recently mentioned amateurs."

Comments

Eh

[airos4]

How's "Been there, done that" as a foreign policy? We even have t-shirts, which unfortunately were mostly made in China. I say we dust off the plans for the Apollo capsule and Saturn V rocket, slap an Athlon in there, and go open a McDonalds on the moon so the Chinese have somewhere to eat when they get there.

A new world instability

[SumDeusExMachina]

I think that I speak for many when I voice my concerns over China in space. This is the same country that constantly threatens to invade Taiwan and is very militaristic in general. What happens when they militarize space? Do we let them hang out with a bunch of nukes hanging over our heads?

I thought I'd never say this, but Bush's missle defense plan is looking better and better every day...