China Launches Manned Shenzhou-10 Craft to Experimental Space Station

[Faline]

China's fifth-ever manned mission has successfully blasted off from a location in the Gobi desert and will now head to the country's prototype orbital station, where the crew will spend 14 days - a Chinese space record. The Shenzhou-10 craft, carrying two male astronauts, and the second Chinese woman to go to space, will dock with the experimental Tiangong-1 space lab 40 hours after lift-off.

[rapeWhistle]

Glad to see they're blowing all the money they make off the US the same way we would've used it, pissing it away sending people into space.

[kellyhound]

Tiangong-1 will be deorbited in 2013, and replaced over the following decade by the larger Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3 modules.

[gatagato]

You need balls of steels to board any spacecraft, much more to board an experimental spacecraft made in china hoping to dock with a prototype of orbital station (made in china as well) which is supposed to be fully operational only by 2020.
Good luck is all i can say. They'll need it.

[PlinyTheYounger]

'Experimental space station'... I would not want to be a Chinese astronaut atm.

[GregK]

Originally Posted by PlinyTheYounger

'Experimental space station'... I would not want to be a Chinese astronaut atm.

Why not? They value their peoples lives.


Diggin the Dishored

[PlinyTheYounger]

Originally Posted by GregK

Why not? They value their peoples lives.


Diggin the Dishored

Thanks. I mean, if I were I would be fearing for my life. It only takes a split second to evaporate.