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Hi guys,

Just finished watching the Chinese spacewalk live on Tv ran from 10:43 to 11:00 SAST pretty impresive.

I watched it. too, definitely pretty neat! I'm very happy for China and excited about the future of their space program.

Too bad that China, like Soviet Union and U.S.A., use the space exploration also for political and propagandistic reasons . The Cosmos belongs to everybody, not only to Chinese, Russians and Americans. Of course i am happy for this mission, because more humans came closer to the Universe . Well, i will be also happy if Greece will have it's own space program (because it will be easier for me to become an astronaut ) but not for political-propagandistic-rationalist reasons.

Let's keep politics out of the subject, lol.

Oh and btw, I think it might have been faked, I saw the flag waving

Hungry4info wrote:Let's keep politics out of the subject, lol.

I totally agree , that's what i mean in my previous message

Hi,

Flags waving, I seem to remember the same being said about the American claims about landing on the moon.
Let's give credit where its due.

Derek wrote:Flags waving, I seem to remember the same being said about the American claims about landing on the moon.
Let's give credit where its due.

This is entirely correct...
In fact, I distinctly remember seeing the American flag waving wildly when Armstrong fired the ascent stage engine to
return to the orbiting Apollo 11. Was broadcast on live television and that flag surely did wave frantically for a moment or two.

Come on you guys... The human race (as a whole) is now attaining the technology needed to get us ALL into the further
exploration of space. This is a great thing.

Very nice! Lets hope they or somebody decides to return to the moon and stay there.

(I was making a joke about the waving flag... to sort-of poke fun at the lunar-landing hoax believers).

Derek wrote:Let's give credit where its due.

Oh I agree completely, and am excited about this achievement.

BEIJING - A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

The arcticle, dated two days from now on Sept. 27, vividly described the rocket in flight, complete with a sharply detailed dialogue between the three astronauts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_ ... _article_1

They sure were confident I guess.

Somehow I completely missed this event even though I'm told it was on the news. A very cool thing none-the-less.