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tod
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response 10 of 28:
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Oct 16 13:57 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 11 of 28:
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Oct 16 14:11 UTC 2003 |
o/~ Everybody's going to the moon... o/~
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klg
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response 12 of 28:
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Oct 16 16:13 UTC 2003 |
(Good, tod.)
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cross
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response 13 of 28:
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Oct 17 03:40 UTC 2003 |
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carson
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response 14 of 28:
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Oct 17 04:18 UTC 2003 |
(...unless you don't believe we actually made it there at all.) ;)
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krj
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response 15 of 28:
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Oct 17 18:21 UTC 2003 |
sj2 in resp:9 :: "Why did they send him?" Primarily as proof of concept,
to be sure they could send a human and get him back alive. Previously,
IIRC, the Chinese had flown empty spacecraft, and then animals.
For their first manned flight, 21 hours, the Chinese skipped ahead
to what the US did with the end of Project Mercury. But I guess
there was no need for the Chinese to recapitulate the baby steps that
the USA and USSR took, verifying that short flights into space wouldn't
get you killed.
The Chinese have serious ambitions for space, the sort the USA used to
have before the economy went sour in the 1970s, and before the tax-cutting
wave that started in the 1980s. The whole Chinese program may be
"a trumpet thing," in your words, but things like that are one of
the hallmarks of a great civilization -- exploration, triumphal
architecture, art, that sort of useless stuff.
I can't point you to an article but I recall reading that the Chinese
are talking about a space station, and about flights to the moon.
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gull
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response 16 of 28:
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Oct 17 18:55 UTC 2003 |
The article I saw today in the Free Press said that in about a year they
planned to launch a series of flights that would develop the skills and
technology needed for space station construction -- docking and EVA
operations.
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jp2
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response 17 of 28:
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Oct 17 19:58 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 18 of 28:
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Oct 17 20:49 UTC 2003 |
As far as I know, no, since they haven't been docking them together. I
think most of their flights up till now have been sub-orbital, too, so most
of them probably came right back down.
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tpryan
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response 19 of 28:
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Oct 27 03:29 UTC 2003 |
In the 100th anniversarry year of flight, the USA space
shuttles are on hold, the Concords are being grounded for good,
and the Chinnese take to flight. They are not 40 years behind,
they, by USA Appolo timelines, could be 8 years or less away
from Chinnese on the moon.
They just might do it better. Lunar orbit spacestation,
shuttles in-between.
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rcurl
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response 20 of 28:
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Oct 27 06:40 UTC 2003 |
With a Chinese restaurant on the moon there would be more reasons to
go there. Moon-shu pork, anyone?
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mcnally
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response 21 of 28:
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Oct 27 08:40 UTC 2003 |
Only when pigs fly..
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tod
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response 22 of 28:
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Oct 27 13:29 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 23 of 28:
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Oct 27 14:31 UTC 2003 |
By lunar orbit, do you mean the same orbit as the moon, or orbit around the
moon? The first seems merely impractical (too much fuel to get there,
little benefit in being that far out.) The second is nearly impossible;
because of the influence of the earth's gravity and some other factors, it's
very difficult to get any kind of stable orbit around the moon.
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jp2
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response 24 of 28:
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Oct 27 15:38 UTC 2003 |
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tod
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response 25 of 28:
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Oct 27 17:00 UTC 2003 |
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tpryan
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response 26 of 28:
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Oct 27 17:45 UTC 2003 |
L4 or L5.
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tod
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response 27 of 28:
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Oct 27 18:32 UTC 2003 |
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willcome
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response 28 of 28:
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Nov 27 08:12 UTC 2003 |
whore.
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