Shenlong Space Plane Advances China’s Military Space Potential

International Assessment and Strategy Center ^ | 12/17.2007 | Richard Fisher, Jr.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just sad to see our leaders and corporate titans selling our country out.

If you and your union-thug friends hadn't destroyed the competitiveness of American companies like GM and Ford and Chrysler with $50 per hour labor, guaranteed jobs for life and socialized medicine it wouldn't be happening.

Better get a real job.

[null and void]

Nee How Ma?

[RightWhale]

While the Revolutionary War was in progress, American merchantmen were already in China. The plan was to open a trade route to China. The plan is still underway, and it is still the best plan on earth.

[Brad from Tennessee]

AVIATION WEEK: Two-Stage-to-Orbit ‘’Blackstar’’ System Shelved at Groom Lake? (2006)

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/030606p1.xml

[Jonathan]

waw-hun-how

Honorable sons’ private school now cancelling future French classes.

New language?

Mandarin.

[RightWhale]

Learned that the mysterious silent black triangles are indeed space launch platforms. There are three of them and they are in use every day.

[null and void]

Good. It’s something he can actually use...

[Jonathan]

Great post.

I hope it is not shelved.

But we seem to be in last stages of empire where bread and circuses matter more than defense of the nation.

Our stuff was great - now is in museums.

China is sadly ascending.

[Jonathan]

Ummmm . . . i own my own company.

It is non-union.

And for what it is worth, Ford, GM, et al can do whatever they like. They can hire/fire or sign union contracts. They made their choice. Now I drive mine.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ummmm . . . i own my own company.

What do you peddle?

Genuine imitation Viagara?

[Chode]

[null and void]

Before this graduates to a full blow flame war, can I ask two questions?

Jonathan, was your "Thanks for shopping at Walmart!" meant as bitter irony?

E. Pluribus Unum, was your "Thanks for being a union thug!" directed at Jonathan personally or was it meant as a general comment that high union wages drove manufacturing off shore?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

E. Pluribus Unum, was your "Thanks for being a union thug!" directed at Jonathan personally or was it meant as a general comment that high union wages drove manufacturing off shore?

Both.

The snide, self-satisfied, condescending creep couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it.

[steve86]

Many here will live to see a joint Chinese-Russian nuclear attack on the U.S. mainland. Some will not live, at least in any kind of comfort, for very much longer after that.

[steve86]

Although deficient Chinese metallurgy can be a real problem, it wasn’t the problem or main problem in the crash videos. Poor structural design was the problem. Their good engineers and software go to the military and space programs.

[org.whodat]

They have been there. Their manned space program seems more robust than ours at the moment.

How old are you?

[null and void]

OK, carry on...

[org.whodat]

is phone cards the way to go to manage the phone utility expense?

Yes, but be sure to get the one for instate and out of state, some of them charge double for instate long distance.

[SERKIT]

...and we chose to shelve the “Dyna-Soar” project way back when. I guess we need to catch up by visiting our own past. We blew it!

[ASOC]

We blew it by handing the Space entry over to NASA. HAd the USAF kept the lead, we well have had a permanate base on the moon 2 decades ago.

The X15 was a space capabile aircraft, in the *1960s* it could be considered the first manned suborbital spacecraft ever flown. That was 47 years ago.