"Soon we will land on the moon". Outline of China's Aerospace Development Program.

CPP20011204000017 Beijing Jiefangjun Bao ^ | 03 Dec 2001 | Article by Zuo Saichun

[vannrox]

Thank you Mr. Clinton.

[dc-zoo]

Yes they will land on the moon soon as GW kicks their ass hard enough. Well we can hope anyway.

[per loin]

The thanks are due, not only to Bill Clinton, but to all those apostles of the "free trade" religion, who have encouraged the transfer of our industrial base to China. Enjoy those corporate profits while they last, traitors. They are very temporary.

[Husker24]

They said they will land on the moon, did they say anything about getting back.

[FReepaholic]

Ten or fifteen years from now, when we look up at the moon and realize that the Chinese are up there, how are we gonna feel?

Will the people and the media start clamoring and yelling for NASA to get up there. Will they call for investigations on why we allowed our "lead" in space to be surpassed?

Our space program has no vision. (at least the leadership has no vision).

[RightWhale]

What is it with this Mr Clinton business? He's gone 2 years and we still don't have a respectable space exploration program. China, at least sees the need for such a thing. Don't blame China and don't blame Clinton. It's our own fault there is any threat of competition in space at all. We were 30-40 years ahead of everyone except Russia and eventually caught up to Russia and went beyond. Then we stopped. STOPPED for no reason. We could have run away from everyone so far and so fast they would have to ask which direction we went. But we didn't. So we have competitors. It isn't Clinton that made this possible. It's US, the citizens of this complacent, rest on its laurels country who let this happen. The race to the goal-line was over, we won, but we dropped the ball on the 2-yard line. Doesn't matter how fast we were, how good. We chose to not win the whole game, so now we're threatened by people we didn't even see as being interested in the race.

Clinton, ptui, blame ourselves.

[rs79bm]

They will land on the moon like Europe has a successful rocket.

[rs79bm]

Any by the way, what are they going to do when they get there? Build a DVD player?

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[chainsaw]

"Soon we will land on the moon".

Getting there alive is one step. Getting back alive is another. In due time we will find out if they have the right stuff.

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[theFIRMbss]

>Any by the way, what are they going to do when they get there? Build a DVD player?

More than a billion
Chinese folk need lebensraum.
Earth needs space to grow.

Unfortunately
we're giving the high frontier
to the socialists.

[captain11]

They will land on the moon like Europe has a successful rocket.

You might want to rethink that jab...Europe provides the most cost-effective solution to commercial payloads.
Ariane 5 Heavy Payload Launch Vehicle

[ContentiousObjector]

Does the ARIANE 5 qualify?

[weegee]

Any by the way, what are they going to do when they get there? Build a DVD player?

Play capture the flag.

[A. Pole]

Then we stopped. STOPPED for no reason.

Well, there was a reason - Soviet Russia went broke, so there was no incentive.

[Fintan]

The propulsion system...

[NonZeroSum]

Cost effective if you don't count launch insurance, which is probably now unaffordable after this week's failure.

Ariane V is now ten for fourteen. It has a demonstrated probability of success of 71% overall, and 75% this year. That's a disastrous failure rate. Customers are going to have to think long and hard before using it, particularly for a manned payload.

[RightWhale]

there was no incentive

Well, just goes to show nobody is ever right about anything. When has anybody been right about anything? Ever?