NASA and China Should Work Together, Apollo Moonwalker Says

space.com ^ | 10/10/03 | Leonard David

[KevinDavis]

Apollo moonwalker Buzz Aldrin advises NASA to embrace China's emerging expertise in the human spaceflight arena as the Chinese prepare for a piloted launch that could occur next week.

"We'd learn a little bit more about China's space plans if we extended a hand of welcome," said Aldrin, part of the Apollo 11 lunar expedition crew, with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, that carried out the first landing mission of humans on the Moon in July 1969.

The United States should consider rolling out the welcome mat for Chinese space flyers at the International Space Station, Aldrin says. Furthermore, it seems feasible that the Chinese may well have plans to circumnavigate the Moon in the not too distant future.

[KevinDavis]

My response is Hell No!

[KevinDavis]

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[C210N]

Here are reasons NASA should help China's Space program:

1. China is having some problem, and needs some more technology to succeed, and /or

2. Your [no need to fill in the blank] political party is in need of cash.

[Last Dakotan]

If it had not been for our "competition" with the Russians at the time Buzz Aldrin would be another nobody.

[boris]

Already posted here.

[quesera]

I'd say Buzz Aldrin got buzzed by something out there in space that affected his thinking. He's nuts!

Let them do with the technology they already acquired from the traitor clin toon.

[anymouse]

Agreed. I know Buzz and his son. They are both Democrats. Buzz's son taught a college course on the Soviet space program/Cold War. His PHd work was on the subject. The odd thing was that even in hindsight he couldn't figure out what went wrong with the Soviet model. They were both deep in the liberal bastion of LA Democrat limosine libralism and don't see a fundamental problem with the socialist paradigm.

[bonesmccoy]

Aldrin speaks as a PhD in Astronautics, not as a PhD in international relations.

The best example of international partnerships in space is the ISS. I would say that program traded off too much US capabilities.

[RightWhale]

Buzz Aldrin would be another nobody.

He's a techie with zero public speaking skills. In other words, if it were not for the space program, he would be a typical engineering prof with tenure.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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