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Puck
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 Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:14 pm China plans unmanned moon mission by 2007 |
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China plans unmanned moon mission by 2007
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China plans to launch its first unmanned lunar flight by 2007 in a three-phase mission that aims to bring back rock samples, state media said on Tuesday.
In the second stage, a lunar vehicle would land on the moon by 2012 and by 2017 the rock samples could be collected, the report said quoting aerospace officials.
"Scientists hope to get to know the moon's environment and analyse the composition of lunar rocks," the China Daily quoted Luan Enjie, chief commander of China's lunar exploration program, as saying.
China has developed an ambitious space program since its first Long March rocket blasted off in 1970. It became the third country to successfully send a man into space in October 2003 and regularly sends up research satellites.
China's lunar orbiter weighed more than two tons and was expected to fly for a year, collecting information for a mapping of the moon's surface and studying its mineral content, Luan said.
He did not say when China might be sending an astronaut to the moon, but said the 2017 mission would provide data for a manned expedition.
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Am glad to see another country getting more ambitious in space exploration  .
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:17 pm |
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Space...the final frontier. These are the voyages of the countries of Earth. Their mission: to explore the unknown regions of space. To seek out new life and more that the galaxy has to offer. To boldly go where no man has gone before! (begin the original Trek theme.)
Yay!
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Dirt
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| Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:10 am |
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Taking a lack of human rights into space, hmmmm 
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Republican_Man
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| Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:11 am |
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| Dirt wrote: | | Taking a lack of human rights into space, hmmmm |
Well, that's wrong, but it is nice to simply see other nations going into space.
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webtaz99
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| Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:37 am |
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It is sad and pathetic that space efforts are not made by a non-political multi-national association. ALL the big businesses today are such groups, and space is a BIG business. Competition between ideas is good, but duplication of effort is not.
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Morphy
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| Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:33 pm |
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Although I'm a big fan of space, science and technology, I'm not entirely sure if we (everyone on this planet) should invest so much resource (money) into a program with few practical goals.
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webtaz99
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| Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:31 pm |
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| Morphy wrote: | | Although I'm a big fan of space, science and technology, I'm not entirely sure if we (everyone on this planet) should invest so much resource (money) into a program with few practical goals. |
Do you really think we can go on breeding like rabits and stay here on Earth?
I can't think of a more worthwhile goal than learning to colonize space, and you have to walk before you can run.
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Founder
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| Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:43 am |
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Yay! Maybe they can find the flag that Neil Armstrong put there and prove once and for all that we DID land on the moon. Damn conspiracy theorists.
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webtaz99
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| Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:20 am |
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I just hope that flag doesn't say "Made in China"!
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