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Chinese Unmanned Spacecraft Lands On Moon
Reuters ^ | December 14, 2013 | Pete Sweeney

Posted on 12/14/2013 7:02:37 AM PST by lbryce

China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, state media reported, in the first such "soft-landing" since 1976, joining the United States and the former Soviet Union in managing to accomplish such a feat.

The Chang'e 3, a probe named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, is carrying the solar-powered Yutu, or Jade Rabbit buggy, which will dig and conduct geological surveys.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; moon; space
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That's one small step for a Chinaman, one giant leap for Chinese Food Delivery on the Moon.

I've always contended that China's entry into its manned space program was just so it could deliver Chinese food to the space station.

No matter what, this is another aspect of American supremacy and leadership lost thanks to that doggone Kenyan dog-eater.

1 posted on 12/14/2013 7:02:37 AM PST by lbryce
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It is beyond sickening that obama has turned NNASA into an islamics outreach center.
What left does he have to destroy?


2 posted on 12/14/2013 7:04:28 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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3 posted on 12/14/2013 7:07:26 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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China Moon


4 posted on 12/14/2013 7:07:59 AM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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Have they deployed the rover yet?

Turtle head to Jade Gate.
Turtle head to Jade Gate.
Jade Gate to Turtle head.
Permission to enter.
Turtle Head to Jade Gate.
I’m docking now...


5 posted on 12/14/2013 7:13:01 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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6 posted on 12/14/2013 7:14:14 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: JoeProBono

I see wheels just like those on “Taco wagon” lowriders all around Coachella...


7 posted on 12/14/2013 7:21:58 AM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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8 posted on 12/14/2013 7:30:10 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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9 posted on 12/14/2013 7:31:33 AM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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I wonder what kind of space junk that they used to get it there ;)


10 posted on 12/14/2013 7:40:16 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure.

Call it what you will. Under any name, title its all Abject Failure.


11 posted on 12/14/2013 7:40:19 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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China dares set foot on the moon, our splendid possession???


12 posted on 12/14/2013 8:01:29 AM PST by Ole Okie
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Remember when China couldn’t get a rocket off the launch pad. Then Slick Willie gave them all our technology through a company called Loral for campaign cash. Yeah, those were the good old days, when they only sold us out for cash. Now Obummer does it out of spite.


13 posted on 12/14/2013 8:09:17 AM PST by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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It is beyond sickening that obama has turned NNASA into an islamics outreach center.
What left does he have to destroy?
-————————————————————————————I Thought any conservative worth their salt opposed NASA and wanted it dismantled.


14 posted on 12/14/2013 8:28:11 AM PST by chessplayer
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Thank you Clintons and Loral Corp for providing the CHICOMS with the technology, and thank you Walmart/KMART/TURDMART
shoppers for buying their cheap $hi+.


15 posted on 12/14/2013 8:33:57 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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To: JoeProBono; All
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16 posted on 12/14/2013 8:36:16 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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you would not know that China even Landed a rover!!

ZERO coverage from our great media-
not a peep out of Washington-

Meanwhile at Nasa-— gearing up to bring in
Islamist aholes—


17 posted on 12/14/2013 8:39:30 AM PST by mj1234
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To think that the US soft landed moon probes in the mid 1960s and had a manned lunar landing in 1969 yet after the early 1970s never went back to the moon. Imagine where we would be today if NASA had continued with the Apollo program and beyond. The Chinese lunar rover would be greeted by US astronauts from a permanent lunar base and we would be preparing for our second and third Mars landing.


18 posted on 12/14/2013 8:43:08 AM PST by The Great RJ ( eating)
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19 posted on 12/14/2013 8:44:55 AM PST by Average Al
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To: Ole Okie

That was quite witty, amusing if not ironic, sad, bittersweet
and last but not least absolute blood-curdling in anger and invective towards the Chief Muslim Afro-Not.


20 posted on 12/14/2013 8:50:23 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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