This is the second mission of Chinese going into space, two astronauts this time. Not much about it in the video news here in the U.S. It was shortly after their first mission that Bush suddenly got an urge to send people to the Moon again. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/10/14/china.space.ap/index.html China's first mission was hardly covered on the U.S. news networks. The coverage was so sparse that some of my friends claimed that the communist government blacked out the whole mission, which wasn't true. The Chinese government had journalists from all over the world in China to cover the first mission and full video coverage. .
Yeah, but it's easier for them. All they gotta do is just stand on each others' shoulders. We gotta build rockets.
It's funny. I read the title of the topic, and I said to myself: "I bet there is at least going to be one mention of something related to marxism/communism in this thread, since it will threaten US dominance". And what is the first word I see? communist. Yes, it was the first word. I just had to laugh. It's a rule of thumb. If you read about the glorious and impressive growth of China, you will hear about how capitalism, or the market is so effective. If you hear about China is going to surpass the Western world (and in particular the US) or about human rights in China, expect to hear about "the communists"! Truth is, after the coup in 1976, there hasn't been a Chinese government led by communists. China is as capitalist as the rest of the world.
China is only the third country to send people into space on its own. No matter what one thinks of the Chinese government, that was an historic event a couple years ago when they did their first mission. I thought it would have gotten more coverage in the U.S. .
The third? The Soviet Union. It was backwards in some areas, although it surpassed the United States in many fields, especially technology. And the CCCP was the first nation to send man into space. Did it by itself. Cuba sent it's first man in 1980. Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez became an astronaut in 1978 and traveled in space in 1980. He was the first black, first hispanic, the first Cuban and the first person of african-descent to fly in space. I do not know about extent of Soviet support for Cuba's space program. And India, when did India send up their astronauts? Do you know anything about the extent of foreign support?
But I said on its own. It's own program and spacecraft. China is only the third to do so, after the USSR and US. .
From what I've read, the U.S. is going to try to use the shuttle technology to go back to the moon. Basically, taking a bunch of shuttle solid rocket boosters and strapping them to a small vehicle. Doesn't sound to innovative to me. .
Valentina Tereshkova, the fifth Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space, was sent up[size=-1] June 16, 1963[/size]. Her spaceship, Vostok VI, was launched at 1230 Moscow time.
Thanks. I don't always have the exact dates. I don't know if I would classify the U.S. as a developing country. Deteriorating might be a better word. .
um. it was on all the major news broadcasts in the US shaggie. for example: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/14/china.launch/ what do you want? For us to hold a ticker tape parade for them? Its great that they did it. It is getting us back on track. However, its not like they did something *new*. ANyways, major props to them. Oh, you make it sound bad that bush announced the moon plan after their launuch. Invention thrives on competition. and China did NOT allow a live broadcast for fear of failure. They cut in after the launch was successful.
I'd would like to see more coverage of important events such as those instead of the endless chatter about gossip on Peterson and Jackson. Bush and the U.S. government in general are behind on a lot of things. It would be nice if the U.S. was out on the forefront for a change, not playing catch-up. It can only help if people put some pressure on the government to get results, instead of being coy and apologetic and saying nothing out of fear they might insult the government. It's true that China had a delayed video broadcast of the launch. That was one of the contention points that reporters brought up at the meetings in China. Overall, they were very open with the whole mission. .
