China Surpasses the US in Space Flights

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"For the first time since the dawn of the space age, China's Long March rocket family eclipsed the annual flight rate of the U.S. fleet of space launchers Thursday with the successful deployment of a high-resolution mapping satellite.

A Long March 4B booster lifted off at 0326 GMT Thursday (10:26 p.m. EST Wednesday) from the Taiyuan launching base in Shanxi province, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The 150-foot-tall rocket released a Ziyuan remote sensing satellite into orbit 13 minutes later."



Last month the Chang'e II lunar probe reached L2 making it only the second nation and third space agency to reach this point in space after the US and the ESA.

 
Is your education involving around Youtube or you just post everything that you find on youtube while searching for the word china ?

I am sure your education comes from my posts or you wouldn't be so irked !
I have the pleasure of seeing racists like you and our redneck PM Harper in utter denial dragging themselves and kneeling before the Middle Kingdom whereas Americans have already accepted the reality with reluctance !


...cheap US lackey being dressed down ! ...LoL
 
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Actually China has been buying an immitating US missile technology for years. They also have a very deep spy network. But I'm sure the US has some pretty sick military tech that we know nothing about.
 
Point is the USA and USSR had to make it up as they went along granted they got help from ex nazi rocket scientists. Putting a man in space 50 years ago was remarkable when the technology didn't exist. Today china just has to shell out some cash to western engineers.
 
Point is the USA and USSR had to make it up as they went along granted they got help from ex nazi rocket scientists. Putting a man in space 50 years ago was remarkable when the technology didn't exist. Today china just has to shell out some cash to western engineers.

Dig a littler deeper on who were the founders of NASA and the JPL and who hired and found Braun from the Ruskies ! ...LoL

 
Say all you want about China, when our society is loosing all it's freedoms and we are being pushed to the brinks economically. China is the model for the rest of the world. A tyranny straight out of 1984.

But you know what? China doesn't have body scanners at air ports or TSA putting their hands down your pants.
 
Why is everyone making a big deal everytime china does something? They a fucking billion people, nearly unlimited funds and a totalitarian government, shit gets done and gets done quick. It's not surprising, it's obvious.

omfg i died lol

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US space program, 2011:

Neil Armstrong: US space program 'embarrassing'

Aging moonmen denounce NASA, Obama

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco

Posted in Space, 23rd September 2011 19:25 GMT

The first and last men to walk upon the moon have testified [1] at a Congressional hearing that NASA is a national disgrace.

The US space program is "embarrassing and unacceptable," said Neil Armstrong, who on July 21, 1969, first set foot on the surface of the earthly companion that, in his testimony [2], he referred to as Luna.

"Today we are on a path of decay," testified [3] fellow ex-astronaut Eugene Cernan [4], who said goodbye to Luna on December 14, 1972, bringing the curtain down on the US Apollo program.

Being 81 and 77 years old, repectively, and having achieved much in their careers, Armstrong and Cernan have nothing to prove nor favor to curry – and their comments reflected that freedom.

"Our choices are to lead," Armstrong said, "to try to keep up, or to get out of the way. A lead, however earnestly and expensively won, once lost, is nearly impossible to regain."

"Now is the time to overrule this Administration's pledge to mediocrity," said Cernan.

Armstrong decried NASA's downward spiral. "We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth orbit and the International Space Station for an unpredictable length of time in the future," he said. "For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable."
Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

Cernan also lambasted NASA for losing its way. Referring to the "space race" of the 1960s, when the US competed with the then–Soviet Union, he said: "As unimaginable as it seems, we have now come full circle and ceded our leadership role in space back to the same country, albeit with a different name, that spurred our challenge five decades ago."

Cernan was also clear about whom he blamed for what he sees as the current dismal state of affairs, citing "NASA and the present Administration's now obvious agenda to dismantle a space program that has been five decades in the making."

He also characterized NASA's involvement with developing a heavy-lift launch system that could both enable exploration beyond Earth orbit and continue to service the ISS as "deceptive, inadequate, and to date non-productive."

Armstrong was somewhat gentler on NASA, crediting it with "some increased flexibility" in its recent decision to assist ATK in the development of the Liberty [5] rocket, which he said "might engender" another provider of access to low-earth orbit, including trips to the ISS.

Armstrong also acknowledged that the the US space agency was "hobbled by cumbrous limitations," being caught in the crossfire between the Obama administration and Congress – "a fractious process that satisfies neither", as he put it.

Cernan was less forgiving. Referring to 2010 NASA Authorization Act's approval for the development of a heavy-lift system, he said: "Until this past week, NASA had continued to disregard, ignore, and flaunt the law and the mandate of the Congress while continuing to pursue its own agenda of disabling our nation's space program."
Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan

Both men testified that reinvigorating the US space program was of critical importance to the US economy, national security, and sense of purpose. Armstrong, for example, pointed out that the US aerospace industry is the number-one contributor to the country's balance of payments, with a $50bn positive trade balance in 2010.

Without an inspirational space program, Armstrong argued, the US stands to lose its engineering edge. "A substantial current and long range threat is, and will be," he said, "the downward trend in engineering degrees granted in this country and the substantial increase in such graduates in other parts of the world."

Cernan minced fewer words, saying that NASA and private engineers involved in the space program "did not join the team to design windmills or redesign gas pedals, but to live their dreams of once again taking us where no man has gone before."

Armstrong reminded the House committee of Winston Churchill's famous saying that Americans will always do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all the alternatives. "In space flight," he said, "we are in the process of exhausting alternatives. I am hopeful that, in the near future, we will be doing the right thing."

Cernan cited another maxim: "If we don’t know where we are going," he said, "we might end up where we are headed."

And from Cernan and Armstrong's point of view, the US space program is headed down the extraterrestrial crapper.


Links

  1. http://science.house.gov/press-rele...mportance-ambitious-human-spaceflight-program
  2. http://science.house.gov/sites/repu...files/documents/hearings/092211_Armstrong.pdf
  3. http://science.house.gov/sites/repu...ov/files/documents/hearings/092211_Cernan.pdf
  4. http://www.genecernan.com/
  5. http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/09/13/video-atks-liberty-rocket-2/

Link : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/23/armstrong_cernan_rake_nasa/
 
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