China joins the lunar landing club

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[SIZE=+1]China joins the lunar landing club[/SIZE]
China National News
Sunday 1st March, 2009

China has revealed its first lunar probe has landed on the moon.

In a significant step forward in its space exploration program, China announced the satellite touched upon the lunar surface on Sunday.

The landing, which is part of China’s plan to land a vehicle on the moon in 2012, ends a 16-month mission through space.

China will soon send another rocket toward the moon to practice soft landings.

China has became the third country to send a manned flight into space following Russia and the United States.
 

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In a significant step forward in its space exploration program, China announced the satellite touched upon the lunar surface on Sunday.

I think the press says "crashed into."
How can we be sure all of this hasn't been filmed and broadcast from the Arizona desert?

Sounds like a China-India moon race. Wonder if they'll find anything there? Dark side anyone?
 
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China lunar probe mission ends with planned crash

Updated Sun. Mar. 1 2009 12:58 PM ET
The Associated Press




BEIJING -- China's lunar probe crashed into the moon Sunday in a controlled collision at the end of a 16-month mission, state media reported.

Xinhua News Agency cited sources at the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense as saying the Chang'e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon at 4:13 p.m. local time (0813 GMT) on Sunday.

The satellite was under remote control by two observation and control stations in east China's Qingdao and Kashgar, a small city in northwest China, Xinhua said.

China launched the probe in late October 2007 to have it survey the entire surface of the moon. Slung into space by a Long March 3A rocket, the satellite surveyed the moon's surface using stereo radar and other tools.

China staged its first manned mission in 2003, becoming only the third country after Russia and the United States to launch a person into space.

Last year, it claimed a new landmark with its first space walk. Future ambitions including building a permanent orbiting space station and landing a man on the moon.
 

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According to the Indian Vedas, the moon is twice as large as the sun and twice as far away. I, for one, do not doubt religious texts, so China's accomplishment cannot be scoffed at.
 

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How can we be sure all of this hasn't been filmed and broadcast from the Arizona desert?
Wrong place pilgrim,there ain't no cactus growing on the moon ......git it?
By the way ,how far has Canada advanced in exploring the space ?
 
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No ... it's like co-operation. That's when countries get along

Canada...co-operation ....what a joke ; stop bashing US and other countries (like China), stop praising yourself ;let others do that for you , do SOMETHING ....anything
worth while (and I don,t mean beer and/or hockey) and then ............
 

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Now they are trying to dupe people with another fear scheme to milk taxpayers to pay for a forward base on the moon to stop the alien commies from Mars.

It is after all the RED PLANET!