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China Completes Its First Lunar Return Mission
China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission to the moon has not only taken some beautiful pictures of the Earth from the craft's perspective (hat tip to reader Taco Cowboy) but as of Friday evening (continental U.S. time) returned a capsule to Earth. (The capsule landed in Inner Mongolia.) From the linked article: Prior to re-entering the Earths atmosphere, the unnamed probe was travelling at 11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 miles per hour), a speed that can generate temperatures of more than 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,700 degrees Fahrenheit), the news agency reported. To slow it down, scientists let the craft "bounce" off Earths atmosphere before re-entering again and landing. ... The module would have been 413,000 kilometres from Earth at its furthest point on the mission, SASTIND said at the time. The mission was launched to test technology to be used in the Change-5, Chinas fourth lunar probe, which aims to gather samples from the moons surface and will be launched around 2017, SASTIND previously said.
Now stop dicking around with the past and get me some cheaper LiPo battery packs!
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1903 Wright brothers fly and then
45 years later US fly supersonic aircraft
1969 US walks on moon and then
45 years after that China orbits moon
Notice the difference? It's like Planet of the Apes over there.
How curious that this comes in the same week the Americans lost two space vehicles in one week.
The future of space belongs to China. They are the ones with the cajones to do it. They'll be the first manned mission to Mars too because they'll just fucking do it. They won't be crippled with fear and pork.
China 2014 = USA 1960.
How curious that this comes in the same week the Americans lost two space vehicles in one week.
The future of space belongs to China. They are the ones with the cajones to do it. They'll be the first manned mission to Mars too because they'll just fucking do it. They won't be crippled with fear and pork.
China 2014 = USA 1960.
Oh shut up. They've managed to do something we did in the 1970's. Good for them, it's not a trivial accomplishment by any means, but it doesn't mean that Taikonauts will be owning near space for the next millennium. I do wish them luck and persistence - somebody needs to kick the US in the kiester and get us 'competing' against something.
Besides, the Chinese love pork.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Looks like decades of U.S. espionage is finally paying off.
Just accept that the Chinese will own the 21st century of space exploration, ok. There's no need for your envy, be proud of our achievements as a race and commend China for taking the lead, for all of us.
And don't bring up the "we did it before you"-bullshit, because the Russians beat ALL OF US going into space. The Russians had crafts in orbit, people in orbit, and landers on the Moon, Venus and Mars, before anyone else. The Russians were the definitive pioneers of space exploration, period.
and a replacement box set of Firefly.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
It's a gorgeous photo, no matter what.
Congrats China!
The rest of the world seems to have become so risk adverse and cost focused that it is very doubtful any significant space exploration will be forthcomming in the near future. Perhaps what little communal pride is left in China will help spur exploration for explorations sake, and not just the pursuit of profit?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Go China! A scientific victory for any of us is a scientific victory for all of us. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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Finally, and China got in before India!
The government - if that is the word - of the middle Northern American country, colloquially known as the Americas [sic?], has decided to refrain from participating in any so-called "Moon race" because it "reminds them too much of the novel 'The Stand'", and any reference to 'The Trash-Can Man' does NOT refer to "the National Aero-Spatial Agent... - What do you mean that's not what it's.. Turn off that micr."
Seriously, if you want 40 year old news, we can pretend to talk about Apple Is when it was an assembled kit instead of an available retail computer.
Oh my god, it's not full of stars... Seriously though, how come there are never any stars? Is the surface reflection really that bright, or are space-cameras just inherently shit?
You seen Peking recently, I mean RECENTLY? I didn't think so. No one can see anything in or around it. It's freaking like 100 years ago, only after 100 years of dirty coal burning and toxic chemical spewing.
These guys
http://www.latimes.com/world/a...
says Los Angeles, the dirtiest city in the US, is cleaner than the 45 "cleanest" cities in China. Boycot Wal*mart and it would make a dent. Maybe.
Elite Space Club
http://rt.com/news/201195-india-space-antares-cartoon/
That Earth-Moon shot reminds me of the end credits of Gerry Anderson's UFO, complete with Eurostyle/Microgramma Roman and Bold text AND creepy-as-all-hell Barry Gray soundtrack.
Don't forget the Gong Man for Rank Film Processing!
Was that "alien planet" prop at the end remodeled as the Moon for Space:1999?
Nice how you compare post-industrial revolution, outsource everything to China USA vs China.
Now, go back and look at the past when the US had lakes and rivers actually catch fire during its manufacturing hayday.
Why don't you cow tip him?
Forget the Moon, who knew there was actually an inner Mongolia ?
Welcome to the 1960s, China.
These short average stature Asians built the Great Wall and the deadly and treacherous Rocky Mountain portion of the US Transcontinental Railroad, while the taller Europeans only built the flat prairie piece of cake parts. The Chinese can be obsessed workaholics. Maybe they can pull off building a centrifugal artificial gravity rotating cylinder floored self sustaining/farming Great Space Station which can accommodate free roaming kangaroos hopping around and giraffes eating from tall trees in their zoo / sky city jungle parks, beside much of the rest of the Noah's Ark animals. They want to call is Sky City, but I think a city is not big enough to accommodate all of Noah's creatures to where they feel free roaming around freely. Such as aquariums for whales, sharks, killer whales, corals, etc. It's got to be huuuuge. But if successful, I expect the Moon to be gone within about 500 years, so take a good look at it, maybe some pictures to leave for future generations. Then the Muslims will have to find something else to put on their flags, else their kids will keep asking them what that symbol is on the flag. I just hope if the Chinese pull it off they don't make other people learn Chinese, because their alphabet is really difficult compared to the 26 alphabet English. I much prefer English, maybe a future modernized version of it that spells more phonetically. Like what's the point of spelling accommodate with so many computer memor, printer ink and time wasting letters? Speling it as acomodate wud b fin. Texters are evolving the language in that direction, shorthand becoming more and more mainstream than b4.
Brilliant news, find water on the moon and we have found the moon's rocket fuel. Get that rocket fuel back to earth and use it to accelerate a craft to escape velocity, in the safety of the vacuum of space and we are on our way.
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It's called an elephant's trunk whereas it is in fact, an elephant's nose, a nose by any other name would smell as sweet
And the Russians tried and failed to land on the moon. Their N-1 moon launcher exploded twice on the launch pad and Russia packed it in and called going to the moon quits. China isn't doing anything except following with their stolen technology in the footsteps of others. Instead of these moon stunts lets see China build a domestic jet engine. Building a reliable jet engine is something the Chinese have been unable to accomplish