China launches a woman astronaut!!!???????

[MrSmitty]

Sorry I don't have a link, but apparently China has launched a woman astronaut to their space station.....REALLY while we sit grounded? Maybe If obummer had spent more time in America and watched the Apollo program, instead if going to a muslim school in indonesia, he would realize the value of NASA.................Rant concluded go on with your lives

 

[cobber]

Why do we need to keep sending up astronauts when we have this:

Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report | Air Force's mini space shuttle returns after 468-day flight

Unless you're proposing sending up the first acting US President-astronaut?

That would be a first that the Chinese could not match.

 

[Sylvain]

Oh boy ...

 

[threefiftyfour]

is that what they are going to start doing with the unwanted girl babies?

 

[Scutter01]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again

 

[9mmfan]

China doesn't have a space station.

 

[spasmo]

Here are links that I found while googling...

News from The Associated Press

 

[indykid]

Isn't it nice that with the help of william jefferson clinton the Chinese were able to get their faltering space program on a safe track, to the point where now they can launch a human into space, and thank to George Bush the Second we no longer can?

There is nothing wrong with being a third world country, if you have no hopes, no dreams, and no care to be the best that you can be... Yes there is!

 

[PistolBob]

I hope they don't let her drive, Asians can't drive worth a nickle, and besides, I just heard that the space capsule has been spotted with it's turn signal on for the last 15,000 miles, and someone trying to dry their nails by hanging them out the window.

Women drivers, no survivors....

 

[handgun]

Wby send people to the space station?? Not needed really. Although there was an experiment i wanted to see the results from. So i wonder how to go about facts of finding on that..

Anyway.. while there are very few frontiers left on earth.. as the ocean is pretty much completely charted now.. but not really explored by science vessels.. all that is really left is well space..

It is mans final frontier.. not trying to steal a great line from star.trek.. but.. its true.

 

[Hookeye]

I can't afford to send mine into space

 

[warangelcometh]

TO THE MOON AWICE!

 

[IndyDave1776]

I can't afford to send mine into space

Why am I starting to get the impression you want rid of her?

 

[Gabriel]

Sorry I don't have a link, but apparently China has launched a woman astronaut to their space station

Maybe they are putting in a kitchen.

 

[Tactical Dave]

How can she make her husband samwiches and bacon way up there?

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I've always been an SF guy, thinking into the future, but things aren't as hopeful as we'd thought. Space would be the final frontier, but the farthest anything we've sent out has been Voyager, which (I can't recall correctly) has finally passed the heliopause, in other words the border in space where the sun is no longer the dominant feature of the universe. The farthest we've sent a person is the moon, significantly not as far, and everything they need to survive has to come from Earth. We have no evidence of anyplace that with any effort we could send enough people with enough supplies to make a survivable colony. We have to take care of what we have, because from all indications, it's all we'll ever have. China's not the first to send a woman up. It's not that big a deal now.

 

[cobber]

I hope they don't let her drive, Asians can't drive worth a nickle, and besides, I just heard that the space capsule has been spotted with it's turn signal on for the last 15,000 miles, and someone trying to dry their nails by hanging them out the window.

Women drivers, no survivors....

You obviously haven't seen Chinese men drive. I'll take the women over the men any day, whether they're driving buses, trucks, cars or donkey carts.

I'd watch out for these guys below:

 

[indykid]

I've always been an SF guy, thinking into the future, but things aren't as hopeful as we'd thought. Space would be the final frontier, but the farthest anything we've sent out has been Voyager, which (I can't recall correctly) has finally passed the heliopause, in other words the border in space where the sun is no longer the dominant feature of the universe. The farthest we've sent a person is the moon, significantly not as far, and everything they need to survive has to come from Earth. We have no evidence of anyplace that with any effort we could send enough people with enough supplies to make a survivable colony. We have to take care of what we have, because from all indications, it's all we'll ever have. China's not the first to send a woman up. It's not that big a deal now.

Isn't this what they said to a guy by the name of Columbus a bunch of years ago?

 

[JettaKnight]

I think the correct term is Sinonaut.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Isn't this what they said to a guy by the name of Columbus a bunch of years ago?

No, they just didn't think he would be able to make it to where he thought he was going. While he was not going someplace with no air, water, etc., neither did he actually get to where he thought he was going. The next step has to be a lot more deliberate; there's no room for speculation. You can't say, "oh, they'll find air/water/food", you have to send it all with them, or you may as well line them up and shoot them. It'd be cheaper and less horrific. Just the way it is, man.