China may be the First to Send Humans to Mars
November 22nd 2011 07:50
Category: Equipment
Shenzhou VIII space craft
China has completed one of the most difficult tasks in space, linking with another orbiting
spacecraft.
Linking in space is nothing new. The US and the Russians perfected the manoeuvre decades ago. Space docking is perhaps one of the most challenging procedure in linking two orbiting
The coupling took place more than 343 kilometres above the Earth's surface and was performed by remote control. This docking procedure was crucial to help rise China’s profile in an ambitious space exploration program.
The Chinese intend to build a new space station to be completed by 2020.
The two vessels will remain linked together for a period of 10 days before separating and re joining several times.
China has already place an astronaut in space in the early 1990 after obtaining space technology from the Russians.
By September 2008, China has already carried out it’s first space walk. Using the Shenzhou VII spacecraft, piloted by one of three astronauts.
One of a group of six volunteers who will emerge shortly into the outside world after spending almost 18 months in isolation located in a remote Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars.
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I guess the same can be said about the early Soviet space era when astronauts died on landing.
Or the tragic deaths of 3 U.S astronauts in the early race to the moon or the subsequent space shuttle incidents.
As humans we should care about others.
sometimes care can be sacrificed for being the first people to the moon or whatever.
I don’t think that any one nation who have put humans into space is any better or worse than any other.