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Originally posted by Hessdalen
reply to post by Talltexxxan
fake like the moon mission?!?
- maybe going into space is impossible due to space-radiation...
- maybe both missions are as real as no person can make a fact based statement how things and everything work in space (except the people who went there)...
Originally posted by Nicolas Flamel
China will have a space station similar to the Russian Mir Space Station by 2020. Ironically, 2020 is also the same year the International Space Station is set to be retired or reach "End of Mission".
This image shows what the 60 ton space station will supposedly look like in 2020:
The West imaginatively calls it the Chinese Space Station (CSS). The Chinese will probably call it Tiangong (Heavenly Palace).
The CSS will be built by attaching modules to each other much like the ISS was:
The image above also shows the rendezvous and docking which occurred late last year between the experimental Tiangong-1 and a Shenzhou ferry spacecraft which looks similar to the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Tiangong-1 was successfully launched on September 29, 2011. An automated Shenzhou rendezvoused and docked with it on November 2, 2011.
I guess by the 2020s we should get used to seeing images like this one:
Not to belittle the Chinese program, but is anyone else wondering what happened to the West's manned space program?
www.space.com...
en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by FFS4000
I'm sorry 'they' have either been extremely wasteful or we have been doing shed loads more than people have considered.
Originally posted by St Udio
i wonder why the Chinese too will have their space-station placed in a low Earth orbit instead of further away
is there a reason for not placing the orbit at say 1,000 miles or more
~anyone~
Originally posted by St Udio
i wonder why the Chinese too will have their space-station placed in a low Earth orbit instead of further away
is there a reason for not placing the orbit at say 1,000 miles or more
~anyone~
Originally posted by FFS4000
Originally posted by Nicolas Flamel
China will have a space station similar to the Russian Mir Space Station by 2020. Ironically, 2020 is also the same year the International Space Station is set to be retired or reach "End of Mission".
This image shows what the 60 ton space station will supposedly look like in 2020:
The West imaginatively calls it the Chinese Space Station (CSS). The Chinese will probably call it Tiangong (Heavenly Palace).
The CSS will be built by attaching modules to each other much like the ISS was:
The image above also shows the rendezvous and docking which occurred late last year between the experimental Tiangong-1 and a Shenzhou ferry spacecraft which looks similar to the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Tiangong-1 was successfully launched on September 29, 2011. An automated Shenzhou rendezvoused and docked with it on November 2, 2011.
I guess by the 2020s we should get used to seeing images like this one:
Not to belittle the Chinese program, but is anyone else wondering what happened to the West's manned space program?
www.space.com...
en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
What makes you think they have given up on it. Let me put this to you, the US retired the Shuttle and it was the only multi entry vehicle, we were still putting it in space using the same tech developed by the Germans in WW2. OK, are we agreed. Now tell me in what field of human endeavour are we still using the same tech 70 years on. Bearing in mind we are talking about the Industrial Military complex, with unlimited funds and the German engineers that created the tech in the first place (project paperclip) do you really think we haven't developed new tech that would outstrip 70 year old tech ? I'm sorry 'they' have either been extremely wasteful or we have been doing shed loads more than people have considered.
Think about it