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Beijing, China (CNN) -- China will launch a second lunar probe next October, state-run media reported Friday.
The probe, named Chang'e-2, will orbit 60 miles (100 km) closer to the moon than the nation's first probe, which launched in 2007, according to China Daily.
That unmanned probe, Chang-e-1, hit the moon in a controlled crash in March after a 16-month mission.
Chang'e-2 is part of the second phase of China's ambitious lunar exploration program. In the third phase, scheduled for 2017, China plans to send a spacecraft to collect samples on the moon, China Daily reported.
The country's space program has made significant steps this decade.
In 2003 China became the third nation, after the United States and Russia, to put a person in orbit. That year, Yang Liwei was celebrated as a national hero when he became the first Chinese in space.
Five years later, Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese to make a spacewalk.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/27/china.moon/index.html[/url]
I don't expect a Space Race to come from this.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;19786421]I don't expect a Space Race to come from this.[/QUOTE]
me neither but that'd be awesome
errr as long as it didn't evolve into, you know, nuclear annihilation
[QUOTE=KaIibos;19786468]me neither but that'd be awesome
errr as long as it didn't evolve into, you know, nuclear annihilation[/QUOTE]
Don't give them ideas.
Get away from our moon Chinese.
[QUOTE=Thomo;19786814]I suppose the lunar probe is built out of rubbish and polystyrene like that bridge.[/QUOTE]
At least someone would be recycling
[QUOTE=Thomo;19786814]I suppose the lunar probe is built out of rubbish and polystyrene like that bridge.[/QUOTE]
It's made out of Communism and orphan tears.
[QUOTE=Amez;19786888]It's made out of Communism and orphan tears.[/QUOTE]
:china:
We should really make a commision to keep the moon safe you know so we dont have companys planning writeing shit on it again. they didnt thank god but you never know
They're like half a century late to the party. The moon is covered with Solo cups and whatever the fuck russians use. The chinese will just have to clean that shit up.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19787041]:china:[/QUOTE]
That emote gives me an idea.
They should put a panda in space.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;19788593]That emote gives me an idea.
They should put a panda in space.[/QUOTE]
Arent pandas endangered?
Cool, maybe this will lead to a space race in far future after all the shit settles down.
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I mean if a space race managed to get people on the Moon 50 years ago, I wonder what a space race 2020 will lead to.
A second space race would be fucking awesome
[QUOTE=Swebonny;19788658]Cool, maybe this will lead to a space race in far future after all the shit settles down.
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"after the shit settles down". Haha, good one. :downs:
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[QUOTE=mscmn;19788839]A second space race would be fucking awesome[/QUOTE]
This, along with your avatar, looks sounds so cheerfully optimistic.
I read it as 'China plans on filling the universe with more space waste'
"Do you want to live under a red moon?"
Edit: Never liked those "Made in China" rockets.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ9ue6GKek[/media]
[QUOTE=pentium;19790839]"Do you want to live under a red moon?"[/QUOTE]
Isn't it some Christian predicament that when the moon turns red, the end of the world comes about or something? In Revelations, I think?
:tinfoil:
[quote]In the third phase, scheduled for 2017, China plans to send a spacecraft to collect samples on the moon, China Daily reported.[/quote]
A little late to the party, aren't you?
Godspeed on your journey, China.
Tell us if you find our American Flags while you're there
