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China sends its first female astronaut into space
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 06/16/2012 6:19:03 AM PDT by Perdogg

Liu Yang, a female pilot, is amongst the three member crew of the Shenzhou 9 mission, the latest step in China’s increasingly ambitious space programme.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy
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1 posted on 06/16/2012 6:19:15 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Hat tip to China for the amazing progress in space achievement. They clearly have the best technology that their intelligence industry can steal.


2 posted on 06/16/2012 6:26:28 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: C210N

... or the best technology that the ‘rats can sell to them...


3 posted on 06/16/2012 6:27:30 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: Perdogg

Will she be allowed to return from space?


4 posted on 06/16/2012 6:27:51 AM PDT by nhoward14
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To: Perdogg

Females are expendable, best suited for the unknown.


5 posted on 06/16/2012 6:28:22 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: C210N
They clearly have the best technology that their intelligence industry can steal.

well let us not forget how Bill Clinton gave them the technology via his buddy Bernard Schwartz and Loral.

6 posted on 06/16/2012 6:31:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ronnie raygun

she will prepare the tea...clean up and service the rest of the crew.

not trying to be sexist....just stating the facts of China.


7 posted on 06/16/2012 6:33:30 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Perdogg
I think she qualifies for invokation of 'The Rules'


8 posted on 06/16/2012 6:34:15 AM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
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To: Vaquero
gave them?

I think it was sell them...

9 posted on 06/16/2012 6:35:58 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: nhoward14

And obama has stopped America’s manned space program....


10 posted on 06/16/2012 6:38:31 AM PDT by Josa
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To: C210N
was that the Buddhist temple donation flap?
11 posted on 06/16/2012 6:41:29 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Josa

Obama only shut it down because the shuttle is racist. Black on bottom, white on top. It’s so obvious.


12 posted on 06/16/2012 6:42:25 AM PDT by nhoward14
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And obama has stopped America’s manned space program

as an evil empire, ‘our chickens have come home to roost’ it all fits the Marxist remaking of America.

13 posted on 06/16/2012 6:43:37 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Josa

Gotta let the ChiComs catch up, right?


14 posted on 06/16/2012 6:44:02 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: Mr. K

15 posted on 06/16/2012 6:48:21 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Revolting cat!
Bang, zoom, to the moon!


16 posted on 06/16/2012 6:53:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: nhoward14
Will she be allowed to return from space?

As long as she doesn't get pregnant.

17 posted on 06/16/2012 7:26:37 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Perdogg
Usually China just prefers to execute women:


18 posted on 06/16/2012 7:34:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: C210N

Yup. And yet Bill Clinton still walks around a free man.


19 posted on 06/16/2012 7:53:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: nhoward14
Will she be allowed to return from space?

If she doesn't, will be no big loss (to the Chinese gov't)...

20 posted on 06/16/2012 8:27:08 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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