Comments on: China and the NASA budget (again) http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=china-and-the-nasa-budget-again Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Shubber Ali http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8076 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:35:39 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8076 Er … don’t you live in Australia?

Yes. But as a US citizen, i still get to enjoy the privelege of funding the US government with my tax dollars every year.

And a nail in the coffin of COTS?

Why does this concern me?

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8075 Wed, 31 May 2006 18:58:57 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8075 Stop wasting my money on a useless space station.

Er … don’t you live in Australia?

http://www.blogger.com/profile/17875090

]]> By: Jeff Foust http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8074 Wed, 31 May 2006 17:54:40 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8074 “China Law Blog”,

If you’d like the view of the Chinese space program directly from the source, CSIS has provided the audio of and slides from the presentation by Luo Ge, vice administrator of the China National Space Administration, in early April. Obviously Luo provides a very optimistic assessment, but it’s noteworthy that the manned aspect of China’s space program—the part that causes perhaps the most consternation among Congressmen and others in the US—is discussed almost only in passing, and with no plans to send humans to the Moon. I also wrote an article based on Luo’s presentation and related developments.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8073 Wed, 31 May 2006 17:33:21 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8073 “They’re racing to the moon at the torrid pace of one earth orbital flight every two and a half years.”

Whereas America is racing to the Moon at the present blistering pace of one Shuttle flight per year or two.

]]> By: CHANGEhappens http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8072 Wed, 31 May 2006 17:24:46 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8072 Rand, you’re right about China so far. Compare their record against Project Mercury or Gemini and they are moving very slowly. But if you’ve known many Chinese as I have, they are very nationalistic. Given their current record of acquiring the symbols of a great power, their deliberate speed won’t continue. To my eyes, they are putting all the manufacturing pieces in place for a sustained manned space program, unlike anything we’ve seen since the mid to late 1960’s. They will be fun to watch.

]]> By: Mark R Whittington http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8071 Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:18 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8071 Shubber – And thus end the reason to do COTS, thus landing a body blow on commercial space. Rand – Quicker than alt.space, whom you and others brag are going to beat NASA to the Moon.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8070 Wed, 31 May 2006 14:15:32 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8070 They’re racing to the moon at the torrid pace of one earth orbital flight every two and a half years.

]]> By: China Law Blog http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8069 Wed, 31 May 2006 13:44:46 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8069 Where is China in terms of its space program?

]]> By: Shubber Ali http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/31/china-and-the-nasa-budget-again/#comment-8068 Wed, 31 May 2006 12:24:41 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=996#comment-8068 This budget would have devastated our space program, and no conservative should feel comfortable voluntarily locking our nation out of space and making us dependent on foreign countries to access the international space station

Blah blah hail and brimstone blah blah next great leap by the chinese blah blah.

Here’s a quick solution for you, tommy – cancel ISS and we won’t need foreign launchers to get to that worthless outpost. That’d be the tax-cutting republican thing to do. Stop wasting my money on a useless space station.

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