China is a spaceflight superpower now

By realconfess Date 10-17-2005 06:45

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the exciting spaceship SHENZHOU have successfully returned from space BI have saw the entire process by my eyes.There is some pictures http://indu.guandong.com.cn/html/2005/10/17/00000001862_1.html
that you cannot easyly find in any Chinese media .come and tell me what do you think of the level China lies in the spaceflight industry.
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By realconfess Date 10-18-2005 06:17

By tool_man (*)

Date 10-19-2005 05:26

I wonder....do you think they might want to buy our share of that big,ugly,tax dollar guzzling international space station?How about a fleet of slightly used space shuttles and support equiptment.Hey.....I know....lets just sell them NASA.

By tool_man (*)

Date 10-19-2005 05:39

Sorry realconfess.I know you are excited about China's fledgling space program.I wish the people of China the best of luck and much sucess.I just hope it doesn't turn into a big beauracracy.It seems like our own space program has.At one time,our space program yeiled $8 in new technology for every dollar spent on the program.So far,the International space station has not paid back anything.Now,Nasa admits that the whole shuttle program was a mistake.Anyway...this topic really has nothing to do with welding shop talk.Hope I didn't offend you.