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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. Heating up, heh by Nix0n · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heating up?

    Let's hope it doesn't "heat up" too much upon re-entry. Remember what happened to the Columbia!

  2. Re:let's get ready to rumble! by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Troll
    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.
    The fact that it was done in under a lifetime shows that it wasn't such a big stretch after all. thanks for (inadvertently) proving my point :-)