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China Plans 5-day Manned Space Mission

Posted by timothy on from the remember-the-board-games dept.

rune writes "Both the BBC and The Register have articles on China's next manned space mission. This time two taikonauts are planned to be on board the Shenzou VI spacecraft sometime during 2005 for about five days. There is also a brief mention of the plans of the Chinese Space Agency for lunar exploration." hrld1,kon adds a link to this article on Chinaview, the official English-language news source for the People's Republic of China.

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  1. Well ya by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Funny
    There certianly aren't any US companies that make high technology.

    And I'm also certian that the US didn't just complete the first non-government manned space flight and doesn't have billions of dollars going to develop private space flight.

    Give me a break.

    China is emerging as an ecenomic powerhouse, and it looks like it will continue down that path, provided their government doesn't screw up. However please don't pretend like all good things come from China. I gave just a small list of the US companies that produce advanced hardware, including what drives almost all the devices you listed. Your MP3 player may be built in China but it's usually using TI DSPs and AD opamps.

    You know it's perfectly possible for China AND the US to be economic powers, and for both to benefit from trade with each other.