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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip S Clark Flat 2 Wellington Houses Molniya Space Consultancy Castle Hill Passage Compiler/Publisher, Worldwide Satellite Hastings Launches E Sussex TN34 1PG U.K. Specialist in "space archeology" - the older and more obscure the more interesting it is ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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