China satellite orbits Earth's moon

[Chipstone306]

Asian Space Race?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/11/05/china.orbit.ap/index.html

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[Bj]

Chang'e 1's goal is to analyze the chemical and mineral composition of the lunar surface.

couldn't the USA just tell them what was there? or just look at wikipedia :lol:

 

[Notebook]

End of Chang'e 1:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7917957.stm

N.

 

[James.Denholm]

Ah, good, sounds like they're planning on a space station! The Chinese seem to be moving along quite nicely with all of this.

 

[Notebook]

Looks ambitious:-

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvVFjzO-99o"]YouTube - CG video of China's Tiangong Space Lab Construction 中国 天宫 太空站[/ame]

N.

 

[tblaxland]

Looks ambitious:-

Indeed, I say its been faked

 

[RocketMan_Len]

couldn't the USA just tell them what was there? or just look at wikipedia :lol:

Apollo didn't go everywhere on the Moon... there are many things yet to be discovered.

 

[Andy44]

True, but let's not pretend this was a pure science mission.

 

[Scarecrow]

True, but let's not pretend this was a pure science mission.

Who cares?

Let's not pretend that the Apollo missions were purely for science either. Or the ISS. Many government funded space missions, and manned ones in particular, have very strong political elements to them. Which is to be expected, since they cost a lot of money, and they're funded by the government.