> "China will not be launching a manned mission to the Moon in > the foreseeable future, according to Ouyang Ziyuan, chief > scientist of China's Moon exploration programme. > > In an exclusive interview with BBC News Online he said he > wanted to clarify news reports in the Chinese media that > Beijing would be putting a man on the Moon by 2010 with the > establishment of a Moonbase soon afterwards. > > "We will explore the Moon certainly," he said from his office > in Beijing, "but with unmanned spacecraft." .... Complete story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2000000/2000506.stm Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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