Posted on 08/13/2014 9:59:33 AM PDT by raptor22
Leadership: As our space program, once an example of American exceptionalism, now sits mainly in museums, Beijing's ambitious program takes another leap forward toward an eventual return of man to the moon.
As the world unravels, efforts to leave it don't seem very newsworthy, and efforts by our strategic rivals to do what we did decades before seem redundant and almost irrelevant to more immediate concerns. Yet China's space program does matter, as it's part of that country's dream of world leadership and, yes, domination.
It represents a commitment to world leadership that we have lost under this administration.
Beijing sees its multibillion-dollar space program as a symbol of its rising global stature and mounting technical expertise as it builds a military with global reach and flexes its strategic muscle.
Its moon orbiter has been transported to the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southern province of Sichuan for launch later this year, according to a statement Sunday by China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
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Hey, this means administration will revive the Apollo Program!!! Oh wait, I forgot....
You mean the Rainbow Allah program.
An hour later they’ll just have to send it again...................
Yeah, but does China’s space program have good Islamists relations and promotions?
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Seize the high ground.
And there isn’t any ground higher than the Moon.
Space is about to be both politicized and militarized.
Personally, I look forward to a decent Chinese Restaurant on the Moon. Can the era of interplanetary take-out be far off? Perhaps the American fast food industry should be placed in charge of what’s left of our “Space Program.”
In the 80’s, when I was a bright-eyed young Zoomie, America was talking about what we were going to build on the Moon, and when the first human was going to walk on Mars, within our lifetimes.
Now we are talking about how much longer we can print unbacked money to keep the EBT cards working, to prevent the Gimme Dat’s from rioting, and to keep them voting Democrat.
It is a sad fall we have witnessed, and it is OUR FAULT, folks.
I heard NASA say that it would take ten years to develop a booster to get back to the Moon. i said, did they throw the plans to the Saturn V out.
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Oh, and if you are worried about china cashing in all of the 1.3 trillion dollars in treasury bonds they hold, don't worry, because they have ALL of the manufacturing facilities that the stupid Americans moved to china as collateral. Say goodbye to all of those iphones, and pretty much all of the other consumer products you currently use, including all of the tech goodies.
Says who? I would argue our space program is more robust than ever.
Beijing's ambitious program takes another leap forward toward an eventual return of man to the moon.
Whoopee! They're doing what we did 45 years ago with much more primitive technology.
We’re still a few parsecs from the bottom.
And our Muslim self esteem program is second to none!
“I heard NASA say that it would take ten years to develop a booster to get back to the Moon. i said, did they throw the plans to the Saturn V out.”
They lost a significant amount of the documentation. The people who built it are either dead, or too old to fill in what’s missing.
NASA, as it’s currently constituted, couldn’t build a Saturn V or equivalent.
“Oh, and if you are worried about china cashing in all of the 1.3 trillion dollars in treasury bonds they hold, don’t worry, because they have ALL of the manufacturing facilities that the stupid Americans moved to china as collateral. Say goodbye to all of those iphones, and pretty much all of the other consumer products you currently use, including all of the tech goodies.”
I was here when offshoring was a hot issue. A few of us were constantly berated because the majority of freepers thought offshoring was great. It would free us up for better jobs. Bah! There’s not much consolation for being right on this one.
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