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Sunday, February 21, 2010


Filling the void left by NASA's inability to put their money down on a program that's going somewhere, China now says they'll put a taikonaut on the moon by 2010.
China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration -- a race it now leads thanks to the US decision to drop its lunar programme.

US President Barack Obama earlier this month said he planned to drop the costly Constellation space programme, a budget move that would kill off future moon exploration if it is approved by Congress.

In contrast, China has a fast-growing human spaceflight project that has notched one success after another, including a spacewalk by astronauts in 2008, with plans for a manned lunar mission by around 2020.
I'm just happy to know that my money is being used to fund a new manned lunar mission, since NASA's not interested. What a fitting coda the end of American manufacturing as we effectively outsource all engineering and technology development to China. We'll still have burgers to flip.



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