China Reveals Space Plans Up To 2016

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slashdot blurb :

"China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum. China's space program has already made major breakthroughs in a relatively short time, although it lags far behind the United States and Russia in space technology and experience. The country will continue exploring the moon using probes, start gathering samples of the moon's surface, and 'push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and the sun.' Some elements of China's program, notably the firing of a ground-based missile into one of its dead satellites four years ago, have alarmed American officials and others who say such moves could set off a race to militarize space. That the program is run by the military has made the U.S. reluctant to cooperate with China in space, even though the latter insists its program is purely for peaceful ends."

Google News / Associated Press:

BEIJING (AP) — China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum.

China has already said its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon. It has made methodical progress with its ambitious lunar and human spaceflight programs, but its latest five-year plan beginning next year signals an acceleration.
 
well, i just hope we find some aliens before i die

and wow to china, everything now is CHINA CHINA CHINA
i think if i will have a baby .. he will come out with necklace says " Made in China " :confused:
 
lol ... it's our own fault ... when our corporations discovered they can have stuff manufactured cheaply over in China, in the 1980ies, the course was already set ... b/c capitalism strives for a maximization of profits, you know? ;) ...

Other countries like India and many of the so-called Tiger states also have gained a lot of momentum for the same reason in the past decades.

It came as a surprise to some, that after the flooding in Thailand, hard disk prices doubled. Turned out the floods destroyed production plants used by the hard disk industry.

Economy nowadays is a worldwide network ... companies work together worldwide.

And China is coming to be at the forefront of green technology and space technology. I don't think it's something bad.

There's opportunities for many countries across the world. If they can manufacture for low prices, that is.

I still remember the days when computers cost a fortune ... I'm glad that computer technology is so affordable now, but it did cost jobs over here. But it's not about who manufactures what, it's more about change and who takes which opportunities.

For instance, the Japanese will probably dominate the household robot market (Sony is working on it), unless companies elsewhere are founded that work on it NOW. This opportunity has been unused for decades ... companies are simply too dumb to recognize obvious opportunities, and everybody waits until someone has taken the cake and eaten it too.
 
lol ... it's our own fault ... when our corporations discovered they can have stuff manufactured cheaply over in China, in the 1980ies, the course was already set ... b/c capitalism strives for a maximization of profits, you know? ;) ...

Other countries like India and many of the so-called Tiger states also have gained a lot of momentum for the same reason in the past decades.

It came as a surprise to some, that after the flooding in Thailand, hard disk prices doubled. Turned out the floods destroyed production plants used by the hard disk industry.

Economy nowadays is a worldwide network ... companies work together worldwide.

And China is coming to be at the forefront of green technology and space technology. I don't think it's something bad.

There's opportunities for many countries across the world. If they can manufacture for low prices, that is.

I still remember the days when computers cost a fortune ... I'm glad that computer technology is so affordable now, but it did cost jobs over here. But it's not about who manufactures what, it's more about change and who takes which opportunities.

For instance, the Japanese will probably dominate the household robot market (Sony is working on it), unless companies elsewhere are founded that work on it NOW. This opportunity has been unused for decades ... companies are simply too dumb to recognize obvious opportunities, and everybody waits until someone has taken the cake and eaten it too.
haha i love how the subject changed to china encomny :P
well all what i can say to China, one day you will go down just like usa and any other kingdoom before
back to space :P, since you are the only one who is replying here
i'd like to ask you .. do you believe that USA really made it to the moon ? some people say it's fake
and i kinda believe it's fake
 
haha i love how the subject changed to china encomny :p

space travel is ALL about economy, b/c lots of money can be made ... after the USA sunk their own NASA ship and the Russians are still struggling with basic space technology (lots of accidents in 2011 alone), China stands a good chance to commercialize space travel (although companies like Space-X in the US are on the same tracks).

well all what i can say to China, one day you will go down just like usa and any other kingdoom before back to space :p,

lol ... USA a kingdom ... I like it how in Ghost in the Shell, the USA was a monarchist empire ... lol

since you are the only one who is replying here
i'd like to ask you .. do you believe that USA really made it to the moon ? some people say it's fake
and i kinda believe it's fake

I believe it's real, b/c it was witnessed by telescopes all over the world ... the US did land on the moon not just once but several times, and everybody's been sending up probes there for several decades (plus, new probes are planned).

Had the moon landing been fake, the Russians would've been the first to exploit that. :D
 
space travel is ALL about economy, b/c lots of money can be made ... after the USA sunk their own NASA ship and the Russians are still struggling with basic space technology (lots of accidents in 2011 alone), China stands a good chance to commercialize space travel (although companies like Space-X in the US are on the same tracks).

i see

lol ... USA a kingdom ... I like it how in Ghost in the Shell, the USA was a monarchist empire ... lol

i didn't mean to call USA as kingdom or Empire, i ment that even great kingdoms and empires before failed after some period of time .. such as Roman, Perisa, Ottoman, Byzantine, British, Han, and more i can't list all of them they reach the best point they can reach after that they fall down, and USA is falling right now

I believe it's real, b/c it was witnessed by telescopes all over the world ... the US did land on the moon not just once but several times, and everybody's been sending up probes there for several decades (plus, new probes are planned).

Had the moon landing been fake, the Russians would've been the first to exploit that. :D

but why we don't hear so much about it ? maybe they landed on the moon
but i think the 1969 landing was fake
 
but why we don't hear so much about it ? maybe they landed on the moon
but i think the 1969 landing was fake

There's been data from telescopes and telemetry data that was recorded all over the world, and the moon rocks they brought back, and so on. The press would've jumped on it like a hungry tiger had it been fake.

I've seen one of the moon landings on TV when I was a toddler.

If you notice how the lander takes off, there's no way they could've faked this (note the sparks) with the technology of 1969 ... there hasn't even been bitmapped computer graphics (all computer graphics was vector-based back then), so image manipulation would've looked like the movie special effects of the 1960ies ...

Look at this video, the return of Apollo 11 to Earth:

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There's been data from telescopes and telemetry data that was recorded all over the world, and the moon rocks they brought back, and so on. The press would've jumped on it like a hungry tiger had it been fake.

I've seen one of the moon landings on TV when I was a toddler.

If you notice how the lander takes off, there's no way they could've faked this (note the sparks) with the technology of 1969 ... there hasn't even been bitmapped computer graphics (all computer graphics was vector-based back then), so image manipulation would've looked like the movie special effects of the 1960ies ...

Look at this video, the return of Apollo 11 to Earth:

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i couldn't watch the whole video because my internet sucks so badly today i don't know why :( its take forver to watch it.
but it's weird, i feel like NASA is hiding lot of informations ! could they be just like USA goverment ? working silently
 
It's never good when a country run on Communism and by the military is hitting the forefront. This is a bad sign. The militarization of space will take place. Many of their ends are going to be masked by talks of 'peace.'
 
but it's weird, i feel like NASA is hiding lot of informations ! could they be just like USA goverment ? working silently

The NASA *is* a US government organization.

It's a well-known fact that US satellites are often dual use (military/scientific). But other than that, no idea if NASA has reason to hide anything. You can read everything about the space missions on the NASA's JPL homepage.
 
It's never good when a country run on Communism and by the military is hitting the forefront. This is a bad sign. The militarization of space will take place. Many of their ends are going to be masked by talks of 'peace.'

Change "Communism" to "Capitalism" and look what it sounds like: Yup, the US of A.

China's space program is run by the military but its missions are intended to be peaceful. So you'll see no guns in space, as in Battlestar Galactica (new series) or (almost) in Wings of Honneamise ("it's run by the military!!! what are they going to do? fight spacemen??")
 
it will be really hilarious if China find some Aliens and have a war with them :D
 
it will be really hilarious if China find some Aliens and have a war with them :D

Yeah, everybody seems to claim there are no aliens out there (despite all the billions of potentially inhabitable planets out there) or at least that they haven't found us yet or that we didn't find them, but that possibility does exist! :)

I once had a dream in which I was sitting in a talk show with aliens, translating for them, or talking to them. They looked really weird, they had green skin, but I can't remember their faces. ;)
 
Yeah, everybody seems to claim there are no aliens out there (despite all the billions of potentially inhabitable planets out there) or at least that they haven't found us yet or that we didn't find them, but that possibility does exist! :)

I once had a dream in which I was sitting in a talk show with aliens, translating for them, or talking to them. They looked really weird, they had green skin, but I can't remember their faces. ;)
hahaha ! you had dream of some aliens ? if i had an Alien dream i will be so freaked out !:D
but who know this might become real, if that happen ! you must tell the aliens to visit this forum :p
 
If someone's militarizing space, it's apparently not China, but the USA:

article

"The U.S. Air Force's second mysterious mini-space shuttle, the X-37B, could be spying on China's space laboratory and the first piece of its space station, Tiangong-1. Amateur space trackers told the British Interplanetary Society publication Spaceflight that the black-funded spaceplane seemed to be orbiting the Earth in tandem with Tiangong-1, or the Heavenly Palace, leading the magazine to speculate that its unknown mission is to spy on [the lab]. ... The lab is unmanned for the moment, so all there'd be to study is the technology of the craft and what experiments it's doing. Still, the U.S. is hugely suspicious of China's space endeavors, so it's more than possible that they'd want to get a look at Tiangong-1 just in case it's doing anything unexpected."
 
China is well on it's way to becoming a world superpower. Heck, it probably already is. But you'd never know it if you go by what the media here in the U.S. says. In their minds, America is the lone superpower on Earth.
 
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