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I've been looking all this week, and not even one word in here about China's moon landing, the first soft landing on the moon since 1976. And that's the year I was born.
No discussion about this?
No discussion about this?
Originally posted by SuzianneI told my family at dinner last night and they didn't know about it. I did for sure, been following it all along. They want a man on the moon in another 3 years.
I've been looking all this week, and not even one word in here about China's moon landing, the first soft landing on the moon since 1976. And that's the year I was born.
No discussion about this?
Originally posted by sonhouseActually I'm hoping it spurs space cooperation and not a space race.
I told my family at dinner last night and they didn't know about it. I did for sure, been following it all along. They want a man on the moon in another 3 years.
I hope it spurs another space race, that is what engendered Apollo, got me a job there tooπ Goddard Space Flight Center, I was on Apollo Tracking and Timing. Atomic clocks that coordinated the ...[text shortened]... onth of a second to get the pass to the next station or data would be lost. Not bad for 1970 eh.
Originally posted by googlefudgeYeah, good luck getting that kind of international cooperation. You don't even get a whole lot of cooperation between ESA and NASA. Much less China. Sure, Russia will lift our astronauts for 50 mil a pop but that is simple commercialism not cooperation.
Actually I'm hoping it spurs space cooperation and not a space race.
The space race was highly inefficient and unsustainable expensive.
I would also like nice international peaceful cooperative space ventures and not star wars.
The way NASA got to the moon in the 60's was probably the fastest, and with the technology
of the time, possibly th ...[text shortened]... to cooperate on space.
To share knowledge and spread costs... then think what we could achieve.