Chinese Launch 4th Shenzhou

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 30, 2002 @12:44AM from the marching-towards-manned-flight dept.

Heartbreak writes "Spaceref and others are reporting that China has launched its fourth and possibly final unmanned test of the Shenzhou capsule atop one of their Long March missiles---with a possible manned orbital flight to follow next year. The Shenzhou appears to be essentially a larger and more maneuverable version of the venerable Russian Soyuz. Aside from a boost to Chinese national pride, the point of duplicating Soviet space achievements of the '70's and '80's escapes me. Will they eventually send four men to the moon?"

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Re:Slashdot and anti-China by jonerik · 2002-12-30 08:39 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Where's the huge stink that the EU is putting up a GPS system when the USoA already has one there.

"Huge stink" might not be the right phrase, but it's no secret that the US government would be perfectly happy to see the EU's proposed Galileo GPS system scuttled.