Posted on 04/24/2025 3:07:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
China will send a new team of astronauts to its space station on Thursday (Apr 24) as it marches towards its ambition of becoming a space power to rival the dominance of the United States.
Beijing has pumped billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years in an effort to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as the Chinese people's "space dream". The world's second-largest economy has bold plans to send a crewed mission to the moon by the end of the decade and eventually build a base on the lunar surface.
It will mark its latest milestone on Thursday, when the Shenzhou-20 mission will ferry a team of three astronauts to China's self-built Tiangong space station.
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Bill Clinton must be so proud.
I wouldn’t be shocked if later we learned that they slipped “somethin” on the space station that can be controlled from down here. Who knows what. 🤔
Are they paying a tariff?
Bernie Schwartz, Raytheon
“And meanwhile we sent Katy Perry and Gayle King a little higher than Everest. Sad”
Bezos’s Blue Origin is at this point just Space Tourism and barely that. Space Chimp “Ham” spent 5 minutes longer in “space” in 1961 than that Coven of entitled beotchs did a few weeks back. And Ham actually had to perform some tasks, not just along for the ride.
The problem with sending Chinese into space is an hour later you have to send more.
The chinese don’t need astronauts, they could just stand on each other’s shoulders.
Is one of the Chinese astronauts named “Tang”?
Spreading covid 19 and $2.00 plastic chit all over the galaxy.😏
Where all white women at?
Hung Way Lo
It’s too bad they didn’t stay in outer space.
Let’s not count their successes until they actually achieve them.
They may end up on Venus given said driving skills.
If they did it with silk and bamboo instead of with technology stolen from the west over decades, I’d be impressed.
Didn’t the return pics of Gayle King have that look that she shat her drawers.
Well, I can read the middle kanji, can’t see enough od the other ones..
The middle one means sky/heaven.
In his book ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ Heinlein has some rocks tossed at Earth from the Moon. They hit with the force of Atomic bombs. It is the ultimate high ground and we’d be foolish to let the Chinese have it first.
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