5 ms·
We ban NASA from collaborating with China, meanwhile NASA collaboration in the past with the Soviet Union and Russia has proved very beneficial (scientifically
by burgerbrain 16y ago
We ban NASA from collaborating with China, meanwhile NASA collaboration in the past with the Soviet Union and Russia has proved very beneficial (scientifically and politically).
- est 16y agoWhile Russia has tons of innovations on aerospace, what about China?
- burgerbrain 16y agoPeople in the US used to (and still do) commonly say similar things about the russians.
- arethuza 16y agoWhat, that the Russians haven't innovated in aerospace?
- burgerbrain 16y agoYes. Obviously that is false, but you still hear people say it.
- arethuza 16y agoThat's amazing - not only because of the obvious history (Sputnik, Gagarin etc.) but also because of the fantastic ongoing success of their launch vehicles - Arianespace will be starting to launch medium loads from Guiana later this year using Soyuz launchers (in addition to the Ariane 5 heavy launcher and the Vega lightweight launcher): http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-soyuz/soyuz-introduction.asp http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-soyuz/soyuz-intro...
- orijing 16y agoIt launched people into orbit, hasn't it? It's been much more successful than India, for instance. But you're right that compared to Russia its accomplishments are fewer. Perhaps it's just a matter of time.
- arank 16y agoIt's been much more successful than India I will appreciate some data here!
- burke 16y agoMars doesn't tell nearly the whole story, but this sticks out in my mind as an interesting infographic, notably devoid of any "India" lines. http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/10/GoCGR.jpg http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/10/GoCGR.jpg
- arank 16y agoNote that China's mention is with Russia in that info-graphic. And here is the wikipedia page of that mission which clearly states that Chinese Mars obiter will be sent with Fobos-Grunt. While I don't discredit China of that but its a different thing to launch a satellite as opposed to sending your satellite on vehicle launched by some other country. FYI: India's 'independent' mars mission is not far - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisation#Planetary_exploration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisat... India's moon mission was the first one to prove the presence of water on moon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Water_discovered_on_the_moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Water_discovered_...
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- atakan_gurkan 16y agoFor example, KITP in Beijing has some excellent Chinese astronomers. I am sure they can have collaborations with NASA scientists that would be mutually beneficial. I realize this is not aerospace, but NASA is not just aerospace.