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China Sending Two People Into Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-on-now dept.

henrypijames writes "As reported widely in Chinese media, China has began production of and launch preparations for it's new Shenzhou ("divine ship") 6 spaceship. While being roughly equal in design to Shenzhou 5 which sent the first Chinese into space last year (although having capacity for three persons), Shenzhou 6 is supposed to carry two "Taikonaut" next year."

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  1. I hope china builds a nuclear rocket by j_dot_bomb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hope china builds a nuclear powered rocket like some of the designs discussed at http://www.nuclearspace.com/ . Then the defence industry in the US would overide the environmentalists.

    Just like a submarine, its crazy not to use nuclear.

  2. Re:Good for manned spaceflights by ktanmay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not! This isn't about manned spaceflight, more about national prestige, anyway, if you really want to feel sad today, read this.

  3. Re:China Sending Two People Into Space by Anonymovs+Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You should not make joke, Monoke.

    Lighten up. This is nothing compared to the Bush jokes you'll see here. And for all Bush's defects, his government is still a shade less totalitarian than the Chinese one, most people would agree.

  4. Re:Wikipedia, as usual, rocks by zeux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the future the orbital modules could also be left behind on a Chinese space station as additional station modules.

    This part is really interesting. It means that a Chinese space station could grow up very fast and for very cheaply.

    Do you have any more information on this?

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  5. Re:Good for manned spaceflights by zeux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes but as soon as it was over everything vanished totally.

    Nobody can go to the moon now and we really have to 'reinvent the wheel' to go back there.

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  6. Re:They've got to hurry... by squarooticus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Arms control is dead, welcome new instability.

    Arms control works only when the most powerful parties are rational: back when the US and USSR were the only major nuclear powers, this was a true statement, as much as it pains me to say the USSR was "rational." :)

    This is not true anymore: there are too many nuclear powers now, not all of whom want to sacrifice the benefits of being a major nuclear power on the altar of "arms control." Please tell me what you think is in it for them?

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