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China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon

WindBourne writes "China will be launching 2 new space stations this next year. One is for their civil program (as run by the military), while the second is openly for the military. It appears that there will be multiples of the military version to be launched in 2010, and that they are developing the same US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was canceled in 1969. In addition, it appears that China is accelerating their timelines on a number of the earlier space announcements."

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  1. less red tape? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    isn't all their tape red?

  2. Re:You know whats ironic? by saintm · · Score: 5, Funny

    That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.