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China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005

Posted by timothy on from the after-that-maybe-the-moon dept.

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."

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  1. Those were the days by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How well does this translate into Mandarin?:

    "We choose to go to the moon, and to do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

    Cynical old bastard that I am, those words actually choke me up every time I hear them. Space exploration (not arsing about in low earth orbit) exemplifies everything that is great about the human spirit. Our reach should exceed our grasp.

    We in the west have forgotten that, and now it's all about the bottom line. Sounds like China still gets it. Good luck to them, I reckon.

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