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China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships
- mugwort13 15y agoThese photos seriously look more like underwater photos than space photos. That supposed space-walk China had clearly showed bubbles coming from the spacesuits. ... Bubbles. In Space. Mhm...
- randallsquared 15y agohttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/did-the-chinese-fake-their-space-walk/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/di...
- mugwort13 15y ago@randallsquared... Thank you for balancing out my post. Read the article you posted. Does it address the never changing backdrop? Also notice how it only addresses the epoch times article. There were 100s of other skeptics. The author has an adgenda agaist epoch times, no doubt.
- ck2 15y agoThis may seem like sarcasm but in reality the USA funded this, albeit indirectly, no? Insane irony considering what has happened to NASA.
- est 15y agoUS indirectly funds everything
- JoeAltmaier 15y ago...with other people's money/sweat
- iwwr 15y agoHow so?
- nknight 15y agoUnless you're making a talking-head argument about China owning the US treasury, the only way the US "funded" this is via the publicly available information on NASA's work, in which case you have to mention the Soviet Union/Russia, too.
- ericd 15y agoI think he's referring to China's stealing of every piece of foreign technology that they can get their hands on.
- nknight 15y agoAh, the other version of China-as-a-bogeyman -- "technology" being "stolen". Hint: The only reason China gets special attention is it's not a member of Club West. Funny how quickly stories of industrial espionage by NATO members drops out of the media -- if it ever appears in the first place.
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- Volpe 15y agoCare to provide relevant citations for space technology that china stole? Or is this just belligerent racism?
- wisty 15y agoWell, they must have gotten the idea of rockets from somewhere, for starters (/sarcasm)
- ericd 15y agoI was saying that I think that's what the parent is talking about. There have been many examples of cloned tech in China's recent history, though, so I'm not sure where your outrage is coming from. I didn't say anything about Chinese people as a race.
- rsynnott 15y agoFunded it? Are you talking about the US's financial relationships with China? That's just trade. If you're implying espionage, that's a bit of a stretch, at least for the US; the carrier rocket used is rather similar to a Soviet/Russian Proton, though scaled down, while the orbiters are Soyuz-like. The US hasn't produced a large hydrazine rocket in decades, and has never produced a Soyuz-like orbiter, so espionage there is improbable.
- feilaoda 15y agoVery good
- Mordor 15y agoHeard they're parking this near the ISS so they can get Chinese carry-out.
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- yaix 15y agoThis quote made me laugh: "We can never count on other countries to sell their mature technologies to us, so we have to rely on our own, ..." Especially considering the large amount of hacking of western technology companies and government that is originating from Chinese military universities.
- Volpe 15y agoIt's really great to see China pursuing their space program so vigorously. Hopefully it will continue like this and pull more technical innovation into China like it did for both Russia and the U.S.
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- winestock 15y agoThe link title is ambiguous. It's the first time that China has docked two crafts in orbit. Good for them. The first time that two spacecraft have ever docked in orbit was, I believe, the Gemini/Soyuz joint missions in the middle of the previous century.
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- nhoss2 15y agoI think your referring to the apollo soyuz project, but that was not the first time two spacecraft have docked. I can't remember specifically the first time that two spacecraft docked, but in terms of manned US, I think it was gemini 8. But I'm pretty sure unmanned spacecraft have docked before that and the russians may have done it before the americans have
- smithian 15y agoYou're thinking of Appollo-Soyuz, which happened in the 70's. the first space docking was in the Gemini program, Gemini 8, which docked to an american Agena upperstage.
- Roboprog 15y agoThe Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot. That seems like a reasonable accomplishment, even if somebody in "The West" has done it before.
- Arjuna 15y ago"The Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot." The Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 docking, achieved by the USSR in 1967, was unmanned and completely automated.