[Arkie2]

China prepares for first "human" space flight? I may be misinformed but I thought the Russians were first followed shortly thereafter by us.

[Simmy2.5]

So they are a little behind the times.

However...lets see how fast they can catch up. And lets hope we can still excell in space before they do. I don't want to see the Red Planet being run by Red Commies.

[Cvengr]

Here's a better perspective of the US commercial venture 3 man craft designed to bring space travel to more common applications.

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/data_sheets/html/lith_space_one_p1.htm