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NASA Administrator Mike Griffin to visit China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the final-frontier dept.

Maggie McKee writes "China has repeatedly extended a hand to the US to work together in space, but for military and political reasons the US has always refused. Now, New Scientist Space reports that NASA chief Mike Griffin and other bigwigs are about to head to China for a meet-and-greet. But Griffin says: 'This is a get-acquainted session, and it is nothing more, and to characterise it as anything more would be to create expectations that would be possibly embarrassing to us or embarrassing to China.'"

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  1. What space race? by BunnyClaws · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Some have argued this is because of a reluctance to share technologies that might be co-opted for military purposes, but others say it is simply down to politics, with space the last bastion of Cold War thinking.
    Does anyone really think we are in a space race with China? I know they have managed to launch a man into space but does that really make it a space race?
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    1. Re:What space race? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ... and if we just pulled into the space pits and sat there, they could catch up.

      Which, given the current pathetic state of our space program, makes me expect we'll see a yellow star on a red flag planted on the Moon long before we see another Stars and Stripes.

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  2. Hmm by AndresCP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Shouldn't what is apparently a published piece of scientific work use the apostrophe correctly to indicate ownership? (top of page 4, pdf in TFA).

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  3. Re:China and the ISS by krell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "What's the Chinese for Lebensraum, I wonder?"

    Tibet. Oh, almost forgot, they have another word for it too. Taiwan.

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  4. What's the US's problem here? by YellowFellow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We need to stop refusing to do (non-military) things with China. I think it's retarded that we can't share in scientific efforts with anyone who owns half our national debt. Hey China, you should tell us to pay up for being such jerks.

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  5. Re:China and the ISS by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They don't need tundra. There's plenty of space in the Russian Far East for them to settle in, and they are already doing that, it's just not backed by the Chinese government (openly, anyway). But the number of Chinese settlers is certainly growing rapidly.