Posted on 09/15/2016 1:03:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If all goes according to plan, the 9.5-ton (8.6 metric tons) Tiangong-2 — whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace" in Mandarin — will soon settle into an orbit about 236 miles (380 kilometers) above Earth and perform a series of initial tests and checkouts, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency. [China's Tiangong-2 Space Lab Mission in Pictures]
The space lab will then climb to an altitude of 244 miles (393 km) — the same height at which China's future space station will operate — and await a mid- to late-October visit from two Chinese astronauts aboard a vessel called Shenzhou-11.
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The 34-foot-long (10.4 meters) Tiangong-2 looks a lot like China's first space lab, Tiangong-1, which launched in September 2011. Chinese astronauts visited Tiangong-1 on two different occasions, spending about eight and 12 days aboard the lab in June 2012 and June 2013, respectively.
Tiangong-1 ended its operational life in March of this year and will likely fall back to Earth in the second half of 2017, Chinese officials have said.
Tiangong-1 served primarily to prove out space-docking technologies. Tiangong-2 features improved living quarters and life-support infrastructure, facilitating longer stays by visiting crewmembers, Xinhua reported.
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Will they Fake all the Space stuff again ?
Is this Space Lab named Bimbo 1 in honor of the man that got them there
Rename it ISS II.
“Freedom” wasn’t acceptable for the first one, so “Heavenly Palace” most certainly should be tossed — with prejudice.
The thing about falling to earth in an uncontrolled reentry of a shoddily built Chinese space station and burning to a crisp is that an hour later you feel like falling to earth in an uncontrolled reentry of a shoddily built Chinese space station and burning to a crisp again.
Well, for a donation to the Clinton Foundation, we could help with some technical information.....
Bill, and his buddy at Loral gave it to America in the shorts. Now we can have our nation f****d by his lesbo wife.
why not Bill and Hillary gave away our technology decades ago, correction, sold our technology and kept the love..
Heavenly Palace:
Oh Sum Ting Wong! Wi Tu Lo?
Burning quite quickly.
I take my haiku crown from my head and place it upon yours, oh worthy one.
——shoddily built-—
citation please
More potential names for this space station:
* BangAGong (plays T Rex songs 24/7)
* TagALong (the Red Chinese version of a Girl Scout cookie)
* TakeOutAWonTon (the first Chinese carry out in space)
* BangAWong (dedicated to David Brock)
* TangGone (an ad for more TANG)
#11. Ben Lurkin; You win the Golden Won Ton Haiku Award for space poetry. It includes a gift certificate for two frozen P.F. Chang dinners. Gom Bai!
Oh, no. You’re the Man!
As an artist, I resist providing citations to my shoddily-built haikus.
China is aware that these things need to be air tight, right ?
Are they aware that they need to hold together ?
“Well, for a donation to the Clinton Foundation, we could help with some technical information.....”
This is likely how they got this far.
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