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China Launches First Moon Orbiter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-chinese-robots-need-tang dept.

hey0you0guy writes "China has launched its first lunar orbiter, on a planned year-long exploration mission to the Moon. Analysts say it is a key step towards China's aim of putting a man on the Moon by 2020, in the latest stage of an Asian space race with Japan and India. Earlier this month, a Japanese lunar probe entered orbit around the Moon. India is planning a lunar mission for April next year."

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  1. Re:Space Superiority by stox · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the Chinese have caught up to where we were in 1961. I'm not too worried, yet.

    --
    "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
  2. Want space? Start learning Chinese! by RealAlaskan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Repeat after me:

    Nie hao ma? (How are you?)
    Wo hun hao. (I'm fine.)

    Ke bu ke yi wo qui nie de huo jian? (May I go in your rocket?)

    --
    See what I've been reading.
  3. Re:The "Space Race" by MagicM · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here.

    (And by "here" I mean planet Earth.)

  4. Objective pictures! by erroneus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps we can get some pictures of the US moon landing hardware left behind on the moon from the Chinese. If they send us pictures THEY took, perhaps we can lay to rest the notion that we never went to the moon at all.

  5. Re:Want space? Start learning Chinese! by chad_r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nie hao ma? Does it really help to speak Chinese with a Russian accent?