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Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn

Posted by simoniker on from the vatican-city-next-on-launchpad dept.

brandido writes "According to an article at Space.com, "Chinese space officials remain on schedule for the first piloted flight of that nation's Shenzhou spacecraft. Chief designers and mission directors say Shenzhou 5 will be launched in autumn, reported the People's Daily last week." Between this, the X-Prize, and multiple launches of Mars probes in the last few weeks, it looks like the space race may be heating back up?"

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  1. if there is not a race to mars by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then I don't know what else could get NASA moving again.

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  2. Re:let's get ready to rumble! by el-spectre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a slight difference between a 100 foot flight in a light aircraft, and launching a 7 million pound rocket, I think.

    I am still amazed that we went from 'can't fly' to 'can land on other astronomical bodies' in less than a lifetime.

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  3. Re:Race may not be a good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ironically YOU wouldn't exist if all the cells in your body didn't cooperate with each other. The real evolutionary steps came when there was cooperation: single cells forming multicellular organisms, animals forming groups, people forming tribes, etc. Competition only holds the status quo; it keeps things in a kind of entropy until the next big step forward.

    Alone I can build a house. We together can build a city.

    Furthermore, do you know what we call something that is so over compeditive that it cannot do anything BUT compete with everything?

    Cancer.