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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. Made in China... by Dzimas · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm getting scared. TVs, computers, LCD displays, mp3 players, and nearly every other kind of high tech device is made in China. Now they're leading the "new wave" into space.

    Meanwhile in North America, we've perfected manufacture of the double bacon cheeseburger. Gulp.

    1. Re:Made in China... by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Interesting

      > They should pay Bill Clinton a royalty. His administration made their recent progress possible.

      Hardly. Credit or blame goes to 1) Hughes Electronics Corp. and Boeing Satellite Systems for unlawfully transferring rocket and satellite data to China and 2) Richard Nixon for agreeing to expand political and economic ties with China back in 1972.

  2. life support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    they will remain in orbit for five days, although their craft could support them for up to one week.

    wow, IMO that's a pretty a small buffer! i would add more to accomodate for any miscalculations or if they must stay up for londer for whatever reason.

  3. Re:I'm sorry... by dwgranth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    fair enough... seeing that the US is thinking of shutting down the shuttle missions soon, and it sending astronauts by way of the Russian rockets.. maybe china will come out on top after all in the next round of the space race (Man on mars??)

  4. 486 by vlad_petric · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It was actually much less than that (probably comparable to a Z80). 486 would have been PFM (pure magik) for those times.

    FYI: even today, you can't send more than a 486 in orbit, mostly because of feature sizes. The smaller the feature size, the easier for cosmic radiation to screw things up.

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  5. So now that China has money to put men in space... by character_assassin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... does this mean that we can stop sending them economic aid? (http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2004/4/6_5.html )

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