"Ow!"
Posted on 03/01/2009 7:45:11 PM PST by james500
A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision.
The Chang'e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon's surface at 1613 local time (0813 GMT) at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission.
China launched the spacecraft in late October 2007 on a mission to survey the entire surface of the moon.
China's ever-more ambitious space programme includes plans for a space station and landing a man on the moon.
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Hopefully it didn’t hit the U.S. flag.
lol
“Er... We meant to do that!”
“controlled collision”
ha
Well, at least we now know there is lead on the moon.
Now they know the moon has a hard surface.
No surprise. Just like our own mission, that we had to fake later on inside a Burbank studio (my own cousin worked on the set.)
All they had to look at Google Moon, it is all maped there already.
The American version of "Chang'e" has crash-landed pretty hard, too.
Controlled collision=Chinese space launch.
Controlled collision=GM crash dummy.
Freight hauling=Tractors and trailers in USA.
Freight hauling=Oxen in the Chinese hoard.
That flag was on Mars!
The more interesting aspect of the Chinese Lunar probe is the name and timing. “Chang’e” 1 compared to “Change” 0bama in 2007.
crashed on lunar surface at 1.50 degrees south latitude and 52.36 degrees east longitude.
[Disclaimer: the lack of an atmosphere on any nonterrestrial planet, satellite, or planetoid orbiting the Earth shall not deter Envirostalinist U.N. Bureaucrats and their neosocialist enablers in Congress from attempting to regulate the aforementioned non-existent atmosphere.] [/satire. Yeah, Brock & Podesta, that's for you if you're still reading this].
I remember as a kid in the 60's, a similar feat by U.S.
It was on television, as this camera-nosed probe approached the moon, and the screen went blank as it augered in.
We might want to laugh at them, but now we hear that we must recreate our own 40-year-old technology, in order to send another man to the moon. Apollo and Saturn V were so far beyond their time, we have to figure it out again?
The space shuttle is so Groundhog Day, almost nobody's paying attention to it any more.
Yup, Your right. I remember that Congresswoman Waters said so.
“I meant to do that.”
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