[SeekAndFind]

Artist's depiction of China's first space station, a 60-ton orbital complex, after its assembly is complete in 2020.


The crew of Shenzhou 10, China's fifth human spaceflight mission, salutes after a safe landing in inner Mongolia on the morning of June 26 local time in 2013. The crew is, from left: Zhang Xiaoguang, Shenzhou 10 commander Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut.

[SeekAndFind]

China's astronaut corps are engaged in extensive training, in readiness for rendezvous and docking trials needed for space station operations.

[Olog-hai]

Shenzhou (Shen Chou) means “God Boat”, literally. Commies don’t shy away from blasphemy.

[cyberstoic]

Meanwhile, NASA puts out global warming reports and tells muslims how great their science was 11 Centuries ago. At the same time doesn’t have a working launch vehicle to go to the international space station. Go Obama, Go USA (where’s that sarcasm tag at?)

[miliantnutcase]

Just what we need. A 60 ton hunk of junk pin-balling around up there. BTW- that rocket looks Russian procured.

[mohresearcher]

No doubt about it, the theft of American technical knowledge is being applied with spectacular results.

[oh8eleven]

Sets Stage for Big Space Station
Hey, that's great. I'm sure their program will result in similar GREAT discoveries just like our ISS.
Oh wait ....

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Ladies and gentlemen:

We were at this phase with our own space program, fully two generations ago.

TWO GENERATIONS AGO.

Now we are 17 trillion in debt. We do not even have a space shuttle anymore. And we send everything to China to make.

BRING BACK AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.

Now.

[MtBaldy]

Old military axiom says: Occupy the high ground. China is in the process of occupying the highest ground there is. We on the other hand are backing away from space to keep those EBT cards loaded. China also has total disregard for even the treaties they have signed much less for those they never signed.

At some point in the near future the Chinese will announce, “We have nuclear weapons onboard our space station and a delivery system that can put a nuclear explosive anywhere in the world in minutes. You WILL comply with our demands”. Our gutting of our space program was foolish and will ultimately be disastrous.

[caddie]

When will they have their first space wok (EVA)?