Article

2012-06-10 China-Japan-Koreas

China to Launch Manned Spacecraft this Month

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2012-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Bully for them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-06-10 03:15|| 2012-06-10 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Doing the jobs that Americans won't.

Posted by Perfesser 2012-06-10 08:29|| 2012-06-10 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Will this be before or after they broadcast a successful launch?

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-06-10 08:58|| 2012-06-10 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Good luck to them. The corruption is so bad in China who knows what they are working with. Cheapest parts and technology with most of it being information stolen from other countries.

Posted by Dale 2012-06-10 09:38|| 2012-06-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 ...yep, constructed by one of the lowest bidders. Seen that before.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-06-10 09:53|| 2012-06-10 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 "robbed of its high-pressure pure oxygen environment" no that can't be correct. It had to be a mix of gases. Pure oxygen would burn the lungs. Oxygen supports combustion only. Procopius2k, Apollo seems so long ago now.

Posted by Dale 2012-06-10 10:13|| 2012-06-10 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Marxist economy has to let it's economy go capitalist to afford marxist space program.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-06-10 10:40|| 2012-06-10 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Our private sector is already there doing that. I love the fact SpaceX named the capsule "Dragon" - bet the ChiComs were irked about that

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2012-06-10 10:46|| 2012-06-10 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 If you close down most of NASA you'll get rid of a Drag On the economy.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-06-10 12:43|| 2012-06-10 12:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Adam Smith weren't no astronaut.

Posted by Pappy 2012-06-10 13:15|| 2012-06-10 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, but neither is James Hansen, so I'm sure it evens out.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-06-10 14:34|| 2012-06-10 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, they'll never beat NASA's Muslim outreach program.

So nyah.

In Obama's America, we know how to prioritize.

Posted by charger 2012-06-10 18:46|| 2012-06-10 18:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Competition is good, but I would say our commercial space steps this last week or so puts us in a better position long term.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-06-10 23:18|| 2012-06-10 23:18|| Front Page Top

23:55 Pappy
23:50 JosephMendiola
23:35 Richard Aubrey
23:32 JosephMendiola
23:18 rjschwarz
23:13 JosephMendiola
23:00 JosephMendiola
22:49 JosephMendiola
22:24 Dan
21:24 Hellfish
21:19 USN,Ret
21:16 trailing wife
21:02 phil_b
20:59 KBK
20:14 Procopius2k
20:09 Procopius2k
20:06 JosephMendiola
20:04 charger
19:54 JosephMendiola
19:48 JosephMendiola
19:13 Zhang Fei
19:11 Lone Ranger
19:06 Zhang Fei
18:58 Barbara