Re: Shenzhou III to Launch this month

From: Phillip Clark (psclark@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 02:00:09 EST

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On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Jonathan T Wojack wrote:
> China said a couple of months ago that it plans to acheive manned space
> flight capability by 2005, and launch a space station, and Chinese to the
> Moon by 2016.  Looks like Space Race, Round II, is just around the
> corner.

Surely it can only be a _race_ when there is more than one competitor, and
right now the Chinbese seem to be the only ones interested in manned lunar
missions during the 2015-2020 timeframe.   Unless the Japanese start a
manned programme with this goal, of course.

Phillip Clark

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Specialist in "space archeology" - the older and more obscure the more 
interesting it is !
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