Chinese astronauts go on spacewalk from new station

ktla ^ | Sep 17, 2022

[BenLurkin]

[blueunicorn6]

“Give me money, I’ll give you secrets.”

[moovova]

Odd thing about a Chinese space walk.

An hour later...you feel like doing it again.

[telescope115]

Yup, lest we forget🤬

[GaltAdonis]

[gundog]

I’m picturing a zero-gravity Chinese fire drill.

[SunkenCiv]

The 60s-era cosmonauts did spacewalks and orbital rendezvous to practice skills needed for their moon landing, because of their lack of sufficient heavy lift. The plan was, two nearly simultaneous launches, one to put their lunar lander into orbit around the moon, the other to send two cosmonauts into lunar orbit and to return them after the landing.

The one cosmonaut to make the landing would have done an untethered spacewalk over to the nearby lander vehicle, run some checks, descend to the surface, blab some Russian agitprop, plant the hideous commie flag, then at the calculated time ascend to rendezvous with the other vehicle, do another untethered spacewalk, rejoin his comrade, and the two cosmonauts would return to Earth.

Of course, none of it ever happened, because the N1 booster never had a successful flight test. Its last one took place after the end of our lunar landings.

The other reason for spacewalks is to perform maintenance and repairs to a space station.

[gibsonguy]

Thank the treasonous Clinton’s for this

[BobL]

Big deal. We can simulate a far bigger Space Station than they can ever get up there.

[Leaning Right]

Clinton gave them the technology.
The globalists gave them the money.

China needed both. And we gave them both.

[Steely Tom]

Big deal. We can simulate a far bigger Space Station than they can ever get up there.

A+ !

[rfreedom4u]

But did they goosestep?

[adorno]

Chinese astronauts go on spacewalk from new station

The Chinese have an advantage over Americans in the space station arena.

Their space station only has to be half as big, and can contain twice as many Chinanauts.

[Antioch]

That’s true for now but the ISS is an international effort. It’s the biggest but probably not for long. The Chinese have advanced a lot in space in 20 years. Yes, they used other nations technology, but so did America with Operation Paperclip in the ruins of the Reich. I grew up in an era when “made in Japan” was supposed to be some kind of insult, and it was right up until their auto industry eclipsed domestic vehicles. A little humility for the achievements of other nations is a healthy attitude. If anything it lessens the risk of useless wars.

[doorgunner69]

When will the missile modules be installed?

[nwrep]

90s clothes were so baggy.

[mkmensinger]

Now, Tang is one of the astronauts.

[Allegra]

Aaannnd you win the thread.

[baclava]

They own the high ground now, they can do whatever they want

[Steely Tom]

That’s true for now but the ISS is an international effort. It’s the biggest but probably not for long. The Chinese have advanced a lot in space in 20 years. Yes, they used other nations technology, but so did America with Operation Paperclip in the ruins of the Reich. I grew up in an era when “made in Japan” was supposed to be some kind of insult, and it was right up until their auto industry eclipsed domestic vehicles. A little humility for the achievements of other nations is a healthy attitude. If anything it lessens the risk of useless wars.

I agree with everything you say, and we must be of about the same age. In particular I agree with the last two sentences of your comment.

I surmise that you may perhaps have missed a key word in the comment — by BobL — to which I was responding.