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China to survey 'every inch' of moon
China Daily ^ | 8/10/07

Posted on 08/10/2007 2:46:41 PM PDT by LibWhacker

China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of it back to Earth, state media reported Friday.

A full moon is visible in this 2005 view above the Earth's horizon. China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth. [File]

"We would like to survey every inch of the moon's surface," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the China's moon exploration project, was quoted as saying on the website of Chinese News Service.

Ouyang, speaking at a conference in southwestern China this week, said China's lunar exploration programme was divided into three phases: orbiting the moon, landing on the lunar surface and coming back to Earth with samples.

China hopes to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to survey it systematically and after that, will attempt to collect samples of it bring back to Earth, he said.

China's space agency chief, Sun Laiyan, said earlier this year that the country aimed to launch its first lunar orbiter in the second half of 2007.

"The moon probe project is the third milestone in China's space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for us in exploring deep space," the China National Space Administration head said.

The orbiter represented the first phase, with a moon rover to be used in the second phase scheduled for around 2012, reports said.

The plan for the third phase was for another rover to land on the lunar surface and collect samples before returning to Earth.

China would continue to research manned space missions, including a space walk and experiments to link passing spacecraft, he said.

In 2003 China successfully launched astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit, becoming the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man in space.

Its space ambitions have continued to grow and China announced in March that it would launch a joint mission with Russia to Mars in 2009.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; chinaspace; moon; survey
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To: my right

“Well Russia just claimed the north poll.”

I didn’t realize they had voting booths up there.


21 posted on 08/10/2007 3:29:14 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

If their spacecraft are built anything like their cars, they never will....


22 posted on 08/10/2007 3:41:29 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: LibWhacker

Is ‘every inch’ of the Earth even surveyed?


23 posted on 08/10/2007 3:49:40 PM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: LibWhacker

After reading this exceptionally written article, I have a hunch China is going to map every inch of the moon. sarc/


24 posted on 08/10/2007 3:53:29 PM PDT by healy61
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To: martin_fierro

Did you zoom the google map all the way to maximum resolution? Try it.


25 posted on 08/10/2007 3:54:10 PM PDT by Diplomat
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To: LibWhacker

We had 40 years on all of them. Now it’s a race and we’re not in it.


26 posted on 08/10/2007 4:03:21 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: my right
China will claim the moon

Parts of it. They will dump the Treaty at the same time.

27 posted on 08/10/2007 4:04:49 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
They have to get there first.

The ChiComs are given to spewing hyperbole, poisonous toothpaste and deadly dog food. Otherwise they are crap.

28 posted on 08/10/2007 4:09:31 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: steelyourfaith
yes - The US and the chicom's have been flinging a lot poo at each other of late - I agree with you - all show and one up man ship.

Don't underestimate them though, they may be able to steal enough technology to make up for what they can't import to be dangerous some day.

29 posted on 08/10/2007 4:15:29 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: Frank_2001

“If their spacecraft are built anything like their cars, they never will....”

I have to smile at that thought :)


30 posted on 08/10/2007 4:17:19 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

they don’t have to steal much at all....the clintonistas provided them with guidance technology as well as stageing technology....they can now make ICBM’s which they couldn’t do before!!!


31 posted on 08/10/2007 4:28:22 PM PDT by terycarl (G)
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To: terycarl

An excellent point - How I do remember.


32 posted on 08/10/2007 4:29:40 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: Diplomat

Yup. < |:)~


33 posted on 08/10/2007 4:35:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: my right

We already planted our flag :-)


34 posted on 08/10/2007 4:55:49 PM PDT by festus (I'm a fRedneck and proud of it.)
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To: LibWhacker

You think we have a problem with academic grants, imagine China.

They will employ 10,000 surveyers and grad students to survey and record the details of every single square inch of the moon.


35 posted on 08/10/2007 5:00:22 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: festus

We already planted our flag :-)

THAT was on Mars!
S.J.Lee


36 posted on 08/10/2007 5:06:37 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Or was it New Mexico or maybe Hollywood Studio 7 ?

;-)


37 posted on 08/10/2007 5:11:25 PM PDT by festus (I'm a fRedneck and proud of it.)
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To: LibWhacker

how come chinese nationalism is ok,

but american nationalism

is not ok?


38 posted on 08/10/2007 5:12:24 PM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs + 2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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To: LibWhacker

The bureaucrats who staff China’s version of NASA aren’t stupid. They’ve learned that to get big investments, they’ve got to promise the moon. Just wait till the Chinese government spends $50b and gets to where we are today - 30 years later. I sure hope they go down that rabbit hole. Better that they throw their money away on moon-related research than allocate it to new and improved weaponry.


39 posted on 08/10/2007 6:38:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
>The US and the chicom's have been flinging a lot poo at each other of late...

Yes, they have. This one is easy to see through. If it was not meant to be pointed at the Americans, they wouldn't have used the imperial system to define their intentions. "China to survey every inch" is a very peculiar thing for a Chinese person to say.
40 posted on 08/11/2007 10:05:57 AM PDT by kevin_in_so_cal (http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org - http://www.olympicwatch.org)
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