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China space lab launch a success

By T.K. Randall
September 29, 2011 · Comment icon 22 comments

Image Credit: Xinhua
China's space agency has successfully launched their first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.
The launch took place at the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert from which the rocket soared on its way to an orbit 350km above the Earth. The plan is for the module to operate in autonomous mode while being monitored from the ground before being joined up with a second module that will be launched in a few weeks time. China hopes to launch two manned missions to have astronauts ( yuhangyuans ) live aboard the conjoined modules.
The rocket's ascent took the lab out over the Pacific, and on a path to an orbit some 350km above the Earth. The 10. 5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.


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Comment icon #13 Posted by Edel 13 years ago
Oh come people relax. Good for China and I hope their space program is successful. Soon we will all be fighting for the Moon. Lunar War I.
Comment icon #14 Posted by Kludge808 13 years ago
You americans are so full of yourselves. The Chinese atleast developed their own tech. u guys ripped off the germans. Even pardoned war criminals for that tech. This has already been covered to some degree but I'd like to add one more detail. We are well aware of and acknowledge that the ISS is an international effort not an American one. Heck, even the shuttle was international when you consider the arm so important to its functioning was designed and built in Canada. Werner von Braun (whom I met eons ago) & Co came the US willingly, in part because they did not want to disappear behind t... [More]
Comment icon #15 Posted by JaySleeps 13 years ago
McNessy was a 'hit and run' I suppose. Glad to see some countries are still interested in traveling to space. No doubt our private companies will begin to pick up the slack here in the States, and maybe that should have been facilitated a bit sooner. So much to learn about our universe and much of it can only be learned from outerspace. The Chinese are not the big bad Communist threat to America (and the world) that the media portrays them to be. Of course they care mostly about themselves ... so does every country. Here's hoping America can return to its former glory and even surpasss it!
Comment icon #16 Posted by Nuke_em 13 years ago
Hmmm very interesting , when i red all those comments i can say Americans are giving themselves much more credit than they should eey? Still they've made loads of contribution to space exploration via probes and satellites..
Comment icon #17 Posted by Blackwhite 13 years ago
The chinese got most of their tech for rockets from Russia Rubbish. Space rockets are nothing more than giant fireworks, and it was the Chinese who invented fireworks way back in the 7th Century.
Comment icon #18 Posted by Frank Fontaine 13 years ago
I knew there was something familiar about all this. First Battlezone (war in space between USSR and USA), now the expansion pack Red Odyssey, where the enemy is China.
Comment icon #19 Posted by DieChecker 13 years ago
Some American companies claim the Chinese will claim the Moon when they get there. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/19/8402070-will-china-take-over-the-moon
Comment icon #20 Posted by ghost writer 13 years ago
The U.S.A. has are really been to the moon more then once. b ut what get's me the most is why can't we be first in every thing back then. Know it seems we don't care I know there's no race to get anywhere first but these other counties seems to want to start a race like when we had to be the first to outer space, but we were the first to the moon.
Comment icon #21 Posted by ~C.S.M~ 13 years ago
The U.S.A. has are really been to the moon more then once. b ut what get's me the most is why can't we be first in every thing back then. Know it seems we don't care I know there's no race to get anywhere first but these other counties seems to want to start a race like when we had to be the first to outer space, but we were the first to the moon. who cares what happen xxx years ago. What counts is today AND the future. The past is past. Matter of fact, china can put people in orbit, USA cant. China put a small space outpost, with a lab....USA today, cant do that (ISS is a international cooper... [More]
Comment icon #22 Posted by kjtest21 13 years ago
China can put people in orbit for a lot of reasons, there's 1.8 billion of them. They have all of OUR money to blow, because their leaders are half intelligent whereas ours are brain dead and allow Billionaires to control everything. America continues to fall behind, my pride is slowly diminishing.
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