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58 years after Chairman Mao lamented in 1950 that China couldn't even put a potato in space, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang, 41, has successfully completed China's first spacewalk. Blogging for China offers an English translation of the dialogue that went on between the astronauts and the mission control back in Beijing, including the tense moment when they thought the orbital module had caught on fire. Shenzhou 7 has since landed safely back in Inner Mongolia and the next goal now is to build a space station by 2020.
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It amazes me a government can spend tens of billions of yuan on a space programme but fail to provide free primary education to its citizens.
It also amazes me a government which was buzily at war with Vietnam and badly in need of agent Orange could still carry on a moonlanding programme in 1969;
It amazes me even more a governent which can easily granted a monthly $10 billions for an Iraq war based on lie by its dear leader had so much trouble passing a bailout plans to nationalize the country into a socialism with yank charicteristics.
It amazes me the most that somebody with full knowledge of a.m facts still feel amazed with China's space programme.
Shanghaiist is about China. anyway, as far as I know, in 1969, the USA didn't have 57 million people (nearly one in twenty five people in China) surviving on less than 125 dollars a year (that's about 2 kuai a day), which is the situation we have in China in 2008. and it is disgusting that a government that calls itself socialist can every year spend that much (3 times this combined 57 million people's yearly income) on a useless propaganda stunt, part of which comes from these people's money.
It's great to see China in space and with NASA and the russians wobbling badly, maybe China's space program can go to new places. And yes, China should help its poorest any way it can.. and yes, they can do that and have a space program.
To daying,
You know pretty well the issue here is not about the money but about who launched the spacecraft. If USA did it, it's one thing; If China did it, its certainly another story.
BTW, unlike what you were spoonfed, China has a free 6-year primary education. I honestly prefered to keep you in dark.
To NannyState,
You must be a type who feels a sour loser sounds better than a loser, lol!
The space program isn't completely China's as Russia still makes the capsule hull and its experts advise China on its missions. On the next routine, long duration maintenance space walk outside of the ISS, an American or Japanese astronaut can throw a wrench at the Shenzhou and knock it out of the sky.
You can forget China ceasing space programme, with so many rednecks like you who want to "throw a wrench" to its spacecraft. But when Chinese succeed with thier programme, they will wonder where USA is, a country that always spent money they didnt have on weapons they didnt't need? USA the paper-tiger will be gone.
@eastman, the proper definition of a "loser" is a person who thinks he's winning because he's always looking backwards.