Chinese Spacecraft

China has a strong intention to launch unmanned space module Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace 1) in 2011. This information was communicated today by Xinhua and ITAR-TASS news agencies. 8.5 ton spacecraft is intended for 'long-term space operations' and will become 'an essential step' to create Chinese national space station. Former chief designer of Chinese manned space vehicles programme Qi Faren said that within two years following the module's launch China will launch Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 to perform an experimental docking with Tiangong-1.

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Science & Technology

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• Tiangong-1
• station
• spacecraft
• China
• Shenzhou

[ioriiorikyo]

@voicubogdan84 hehe losers, just another complain from jobless. you should ask yourself why you people can not compete with chinese---we are working very hard, we don.t complain the low wages and bad environment, because we believe through out the effectively and efficiently working, we will have a glorious future.many other people lack this kind of ambitions but just complain or curse. this is the diferent

[aquakawai]

For those of you who said "china stole things from USSR or USSR stole the rocket tech from the Nazi", wikipedia who invented the very first rocket, not the modern ones but the very original and conceptual one dated back to a few thousand yrs ago...does it ring a bell?Bingo, the Chinese! Similar things like the invention of gunpowder, no one will deny it's the foundation of modern weapon. Did people steal things from China? Yes & no! That's science, you stand on others' shoulders & you move it on

[MultiAlpha111]

so many jealousy bitches here, lol

[Condom007of007Solace]

@divedimon "China is just a thief. Just a copy-paster"

Problems? Umadbro?

[KKM121]

@voicubogdan84

Well at least the Chinese don't believe the universe was created by god 6000 years ago like a lot of Americans do. :D

[soverato3]

looks like a soyuz...

[marcopolo3001]

@divedimon Reverse engineered more like it, not "just" a kickstart. No such thing as "just" a kickstart in the scientific world. I hope you are not biased, just for the sake of being biased. But America nor Russia had ballistic capabilities until after WWII. Now you can argue until hell freezes over if the Nazis could get to the moon had they won the war & kept progressing. But all science advancement is taken from the discoveries of its predecessors. I don't think China is any different in this

[marcopolo3001]

@torinsundberg Who cares. Science has no sense of patriotism. Its about sheer unadulterated ingenuity.

[divedimon]

@marcopolo3001 And also, again, Nazi's had no idea of the space ships, they had no life support, energy systems, engines, computers, they had just a peace of dynamite a top of the rocket.

Also, do you know that 5 chinese spies are now in the russian jail for 11 years because of illegal knowlege transfer to china ? Yes, USSR space exp. probably was kickstarted from Nazi's tech. But it was just a kickstart.

China is just a thief. Just a copy-paster.

[divedimon]

@marcopolo3001 First small rockets was launched from USSR since 1930s. You probably heared this names - Tsiolkovsky, Korolyov. They were the masterminds of all the russian space exploration. They thinked and worked since 1910s, they had a dream of space exploration. In 1945, after researching some of Nazi's technologies, they decided to go other way and create BRAND NEW rocket, i mean there is NOTHING similar between Nazi's rockets and the first rocket, which launched the first satelite.