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Posted by tourdemars to General News at April 27, 2004 03:44 PM
The Chinese, who launched their first astronaut into space last year, are "shocked" the United States has not welcomed them into the tight-knit community of space-faring nations, a leading U.S. expert said on Tuesday. Joan Johnson-Freese, who chairs the National Security Decision Making Department at the U.S. Naval War College, said one space official she met on a recent trip to China was in tears as he pleaded for U.S. recognition and cooperation.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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Since it is the Military that fears the up start china in space, Maybe it is time that all military operation preformed by Nasa start being done by the military only. Then there is no conflict if china would join in with the ISS with the rest of the space faring nations.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 27, 2004 06:44 PM
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.Welcome the Chinese to the ISS Alpha.
Posted by: Jon at April 27, 2004 07:21 PM
China, potentially, could be our biggest and best space partner. We are being foolish not reaching out to them. I believe that 'cold war senators' and pentagon pinheads would like to see tensions heat up in space between our two countries so they can justify their multi-billion dollar lemon SDI aka 'star wars'.
Russia and Europe are jumping at the chance to work with China. Do the math people, their combined assests amount to more than NASA can hope to get. Good-bye superpower status, hello second place...
Posted by: Zach at April 28, 2004 04:18 AM
It's about time that O'keefe went and did this visit. China should also be on his tah do list as well.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 28, 2004 08:59 AM
Some pretty good discusions going on today with regards to When a space race can be a good thing on the spacepolitics site. Enjoy the read...
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 28, 2004 09:31 AM
Now here is a tidbit about the china's what would be analogous to the Apollo CSM unit but different, It's Service Module, for example, has four main engines, whereas Apollo's service module had only one, and Soyuz has one main and one backup engine. Also, Shenzhou's large solar arrays generate several times more electrical power than the Russian system. And unlike Soyuz, the Chinese orbital module carries its own solar panels and independent flight control system, allowing it to continue as a free-flying unmanned mini-laboratory long after the reentry module has brought the crew back to Earth.
I like the Idea of leaving in space the remaining unit rather than crash and burn is great. If one were to make a docking hub for these left over pieces then you could make a mini space station. No need for Gyro's just fire an engine to redirect it's alignments as needed everything that remains is ready for use. All that would be needed is a resupply means for water,O2 and food for the crew.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 28, 2004 11:21 AM
Harold, the 'Human Missions' To Mars forum is pretty lively. Here's a link if you want to post some of your good ideas.
http://www.newmars.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=1e45a428dc100af8978988b15802a525;act=SF;f=4
Posted by: Zach at April 28, 2004 11:26 AM
Thanks so which post was a good idea, chuckle chuckle, I hope they were all good ones. I will visit the site.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 28, 2004 11:45 AM
Ah, notice I said good idea(s) not idea =)
i really think most of your shuttle suggestions were on the mark. Problem is, they would have saved NASA a lot of money, and everyone knows you have to spend a lot of money to be safe =)
Posted by: Zach at April 28, 2004 04:11 PM