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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by WAWalsh: [B]Just an FYI -- The Oct. 2003 issue of Scientific American contains a piece by James Oberg on the anticipated first manned Chinese orbital mission. The article is entitled "China's Great Leap Upward." The article anticipates China linking up with a small space station within two years (a program that suggests a variation of the MOL program).[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>WAWalsh</TD><TD>Just an FYI -- The Oct. 2003 issue of Scientific American contains a piece by James Oberg on the anticipated first manned Chinese orbital mission. The article is entitled "China's Great Leap Upward." The article anticipates China linking up with a small space station within two years (a program that suggests a variation of the MOL program).</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Gordon Reade</TD><TD>I wish them luck. What we need to get more funding for NASA is someone to compete with.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Rodina</TD><TD> I certainly wish the Chinese well, but at this point, I wouldn't appropriate an extra dollar for NASA. It needs to be destroyed in order to be saved.Shuttle delenda est. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Scott</TD><TD>I don't care for the Chinese government, but I wish their space program and astros well. I'm probably the oldest space enthusiast on Earth who doesn't have the privilege of having remembered watching a live moonwalk. I'd like to see one someday, or at least something comparable. Things are looking up (Mars rovers in January, etc) but you are right about a little competition being a good thing. The American people won't have much patience for screwing around in low Earth orbit when there are Chinese astros orbiting the Moon.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Philip</TD><TD>You're correct about the MOL-like space station ( it was already featured on BIS' monthly " Spaceflight " magazine ) ... On the subject of a manned mission to the Moon or Mars I can only say; "Hope to see one in my lifetime ... don't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, American , Russian, International ..." ( H�y it's almost 50 years since Apollo 11 )</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>chet</TD><TD>I hope for the safety of any taikonaut the Chinese send up, but I do not wish them well in their space endeavors."Like many other nations, China's exploration of outer space is purely for peaceful purposes," a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry said during a regular news briefing. "China has always supported the `non-weaponization' of space. China will not take part in any arms race in space."And there's a lovely little bridge in Brooklyn I can show to anyone that might be interested in purchasing.-chet</TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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