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China Launches Third Unmanned Space Capsule

Posted by timothy on from the space-has-more-room dept.

Guppy06 writes: "As you read this China's third unmanned (except for a dummy) Shenzhou capsule is whizzing over your head. It was launched around 1400 UTC on one of China's newer Long March II F boosters. There's an article at CNN. As per usual, our good friends at NORAD have all the details of its orbit available here, but after last September you need to register to get it..."

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  1. Re:US Space Program by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This 1960's line of thinking of yours is so goddamn naive. Last I heard, the States were going thru a time of recession, and that hardly facilitates space exploration.

  2. counterparts by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Counterparts are people 'like you'. IE, Mao was Castro's idiological counterpart. You should learn what words mean before using them.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  3. No. 1: China vs USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    As opposed to the USA:

    "They think that [Americans] are the culmination of evolution and that everything outside the [USA] is the wasteland of [wimps, terrorists and socialists]. I've spoken with [Americans] (in [the USA] who [loudly, obnoxiously and endlessly] told me that [Americans] were superior human beings. They already think they're number 1"

    Good to see the USA finally getting some competition in the "country most thoroughly up itself" stakes...