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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 post(this) != post(first)... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    ...I will stuff raw bloody meat into my shorts and dive into a pen of lions at the zoo.

    As always, links to pictures will be posted.

  2. heating up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the only thing heating up will be the atronaut, when he catches on fire.

  3. NASA beat them to it by CausticWindow · · Score: -1, Troll

    They sent monkeys into space as early as 1964.

    --
    How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
  4. Chinese Observatory Pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This guy went on a tour of some observatories in China last year and put a bunch of pictures online. They have a very different perspective on the sky and some of them are pretty cool. It's not the hubble, but its definitely cool for you space buffs. His site is here.

  5. 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!

  6. Confucious say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Treat female cosmonaut like mail. Lick it, stick it, send it on it's way.

  7. Re:This is great news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Look, we are talking about COMMIES here. Don't you mean....
    "after they've BEEN eaten"

  8. Re:shameful by tomhudson · · Score: -1, Troll
    Oh, come on. We all wish them the best. We all want the space race back. What we don't want is political correctness.

    As for the references to dog meat, I know several asian women who returned to China for visits and ate dog meat w/o knowing it, only being told after the fact. They didn't think it was funny, but their hosts did.

    It happens. Some countries, it's not dog-eat-dog, but people-eat-dog.

    Some other countries have a hard time conceiving of dogs as pets, fit to share a home with.

    Get used to it. Karma whoring by being politically correct doesn't work.

  9. Autumn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Excellent!

    Since we already are in Autumn, we sure can expect them to be flying in July... Great!

    (This is sarcasm.)

  10. goatse.cx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    goatse.cx

  11. 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 :-)
  12. Korea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Personally, I can't wait for the Korean mission. Then we can call it "Gooks In Space".

  13. Re:Moon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Russia once copied/stole from the US space program too, and look where they're at.

  14. Thanks, Hitler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks, Hitler. Your "technology transfers" to the US after WW2 allowed the hamburger eating fatties to go to the moon and build nuclear missiles.

    Thanks again, Adolf. Hope the Jew destruction shit was worth it.