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Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk

Posted by timothy on from the awesome-cgi dept.

As_I_Please writes "At 8:40AM (GMT) this morning, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. This is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts to the moon."

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  1. And also... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While you are counting all that money don't forget that your factories are now all moving out of China to places like Vietnam where labor is cheaper...

    Oh and seeing that the businesses that are designing, distributing, and purchasing all of the factory output are almost all foreign...
    Hey! You aren't going to be part of the revenue stream anymore!!! I bet that the $5,000 per person in debt will go a long way when after the inflated wage structure crashes...