China Space Lab Launch Planned For 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it would launch a space lab to be manned for long stretches within about 10 years, a move it believes would bring it closer to the United States and Russia as powers capable of reaching the moon.

The official Xinhua news agency, quoting an unidentified space official, said a trial space lab would be launched before 2016 to test equipment and techniques. But it was not clear if that lab would be manned for long periods.

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Comments

[vascopyjama]

04:18 AM on 10/29/2010

How ya gunna eat noodles in space?

[jgarbuz]

12:49 PM on 10/28/2010

Space exploration SHOULD be an international affair, a common challenge for all of humanity.
China, Japan, India, and others may now be using space as a nationalist patriotic thing to do, as we and the Soviets did decades ago. But in the end, the immense challenges and potential resources in space will require all existing human talents and capabilities. Whatever any particular country does there ultimately will benefit us all.

[dls8649]

09:50 AM on 10/28/2010

Gee, I guess we have now out sourced space travel to the Chinese. I'll bet they can do it cheaper.

[motherfather]

08:48 AM on 10/28/2010

China...the defacto owner of America! Glad to see that they are moving ahead.

[ThinkCreeps]

05:00 AM on 10/28/2010

Good morning US, your bond owners are putting your tax dollars to work.

[Staxx]

03:44 AM on 10/28/2010

Good, space travel is about to get cheaper for all to afford.

[Pod-gers]

01:43 AM on 10/28/2010

Some truely fantastic images here...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/mods08a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/qxs.html&h=410&w=280&sz=30&tbnid=dLUce-y867xuzM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3DQian%2BXuesen&zoom=1&q=Qian+Xuesen&hl=en&usg=__rmBETzQPBw-99JUkbyteMjBb-eQ=&sa=X&ei=9gvJTIWhEYO8lQfC19HrAQ&ved=0CCMQ9QEwAg

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[Pod-gers]

01:26 AM on 10/28/2010

Turns out that the father os the Chinese missle/rocket program, which is the basis of the space program was also one of the founders of our jet propulsion Lab at cal Tec. back in the 50s, during McCarthy's Red Scare, we locked him up for five years. When we finally calmed down, and told him he was free to go, go he did, back to China.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/01/local/me-qian-xuesen1

Qian, a Chinese-born aeronautical engineer educated at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a protege of Caltech's eminent professor Theodore von Karman, who recognized him as an outstanding mathematician and "undisputed genius."

Qian's research contributed to the development of "jet-assisted takeoff" technology that the military began using in the 1940s.

He was the founding director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at Caltech and a member of the university's so-called Suicide Squad of rocket experimenters who laid the groundwork for testing done by JPL.

[bccmeteorites]

09:17 PM on 10/31/2010

Lots of minorities have been marginalized and destroyed by the "establishment". Greed, fraud and racism.

[RubalKhali]

01:01 AM on 10/28/2010

I think the headline writter was on dope, space race? interstellar?

[Edward Standley]

10:35 PM on 10/28/2010

Yeah, good for the Chinese, But I just about broke my brain when I saw "interstellar" in the headline. Kind of a letdown.

[chocolateandcheese]

12:38 AM on 10/28/2010

Meanwhile, in America, little funding for science has spun a generation of dolts who think our moon landings were faked. Maybe the Chinese will land near our old moon landers and prove to us once and for all that we actually landed. By then we'll be a third world country, so we'll need the restored pride.

[richnerd]

11:58 PM on 10/27/2010

Good for them, we'll just stay here and polish the moon rocks and enjoy our vintage video of some of our rocket take-offs. Exploring outer space is for the big countries with big budgets and technical know how, not for third-world countries.

[RubalKhali]

12:59 AM on 10/28/2010

Guess that's why America is getting out of the game. Good thing Russia can still supply ISS.

[JackTheSkipper]

11:00 PM on 10/27/2010

Calm down people.

HP was paid thousands of dollars by the communist China to include the word "interstellar". This is a propaganda.

[bccmeteorites]

09:19 PM on 10/31/2010

Wrong.

[hbhawaii]

09:47 PM on 10/27/2010

Do you outsource your headline writing?

[Richard Pearce]

08:14 PM on 10/27/2010

Well, so now there will be a space station for the Iranian space program to dock with.

[Pod-gers]

01:16 AM on 10/28/2010

LOL

[MikeDu]

07:46 PM on 10/27/2010

Wow, between the stars. It would probably take 500 or more years for a manned spacecraft to reach the next star. So 'interstellar' seems a pointless pursuit.

[GiiGii]

04:12 AM on 10/28/2010

take care, a lot of chinese people to pedal :)