Could China get to the moon before NASA

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Ray Vingnutte - 28 Sep 2005 09:04 GMT

This time maybe....Is this going to turn into another political space
race.

http://aviationnow.ecnext.com/free-scripts/comsite2.pl?page=aw_document&article=
CHLU09265

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nightbat - 28 Sep 2005 17:22 GMT

nightbat wrote

> This time maybe....Is this going to turn into another political space
> race.
>
> http://aviationnow.ecnext.com/free-scripts/comsite2.pl?page=aw_document&article=
CHLU09265

nightbat

What race we've been there done that. The new race Officer Ray
possibly is to 1st colonize the moon and other planets but fat chance
with US falling events shuttle. Nasa needs a crew safer new space
transport vehicle. Prudently spend the Nasa program billions but don't
design zero escape our crews, come on! With some of those billions
astronomy Science Team could do a better research advisory job. As I
have Captain informed one net reported Sean Starship will put them all
to shame.

ponder on,
the nightbat

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Ray Vingnutte - 28 Sep 2005 17:41 GMT

> nightbat wrote
>
> > This time maybe....Is this going to turn into another political space
> > race.

http://aviationnow.ecnext.com/free-scripts/comsite2.pl?page=aw_document&article=
CHLU09265

> nightbat
>
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> ponder on,
> the nightbat

Well it could just be my suspicious mind but when I read that article my
first thought was oh yeah here we go, Apollo revisited. Sure the US made
it to the moon first but that was some time ago and a race to show you
can do it again and this time beat the Chinese to it. All political of
course just as with Apollo, I hope not but I have a feeling a lot of
politics will be involved in it. This just might be the start too.

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G=EMC^2 Glazier - 28 Sep 2005 23:49 GMT

Hi nightbat Now we all can see how 35 years was wasted. Staying with
the Saturn V and each year improving on it and trips to the Moon we
would now have a large base there,with hundreds of people. Moon
farmers,water extracted from deep rocks. Miners,metal workers. Great
telescopes. A flashing Moon beacon showing humankind that American
space science is unmatched. What great pride. What American child
would not dream to go to the Moon,and be part of this great ongoing NASA
agency of discovery. We now know what went wrong. Can we get back into
some program without fantasying putting men on Mars in 25 years? Like
Greysky said we have to find away to get men on the moon,and it has to
be done in 3 years. Beert

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Raving Loonie - 30 Sep 2005 01:42 GMT

> Hi nightbat Now we all can see how 35 years was wasted. Staying with
> the Saturn V and each year improving on it and trips to the Moon we
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> Greysky said we have to find away to get men on the moon,and it has to
> be done in 3 years. Beert

New ISS crew, plus tourist, readies for launch

The next crew of the International Space Station is preparing to launch
on 1 October from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. When the Soyuz
rocket launches, the astronaut and the cosmonaut will be joined by a
private citizen, 60-year-old Dr. Gregory Olsen. ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/29/iss_space_tourism/

Tourism

~ Raving Loonie

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Ray Vingnutte - 30 Sep 2005 06:45 GMT

> > Hi nightbat Now we all can see how 35 years was wasted. Staying with
> > the Saturn V and each year improving on it and trips to the Moon we
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> ~ Raving Loonie

Be carefull with the time of this launch if you want to watch it on NASA
tv, the actual launch is for today at 23:54 for some depending on your
time zone. I made a mistake recently with this sort of thing and missed
a launch.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

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G=EMC^2 Glazier - 30 Sep 2005 13:01 GMT

Hi Ray Thinking about going back to the Moon we have the very
dependable Saturn rocket. putting 5 together gets us to the Moon and
back. We can't get back the 35 years the shuttle program cost us in
lives time and money,but we just have to copy the Apollo program,and
that should only take 3 years. If today's NASA can't even copy then we
should turn NASA over to the Japanese for they are the worlds greatest
copiers Bert

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Uno - 30 Sep 2005 16:09 GMT

The Ghost from Apollo will create bad dream in space.

> Hi Ray Thinking about going back to the Moon we have the very
> dependable Saturn rocket. putting 5 together gets us to the Moon and
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> should turn NASA over to the Japanese for they are the worlds greatest
> copiers Bert

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Could China get to the moon before NASA