Unless you're making a talking-head argument about China owning the US treasury, the only way the US "funded" this is via the publicly available information on NASA's work, in which case you have to mention the Soviet Union/Russia, too.
Ah, the other version of China-as-a-bogeyman -- "technology" being "stolen".
Hint: The only reason China gets special attention is it's not a member of Club West. Funny how quickly stories of industrial espionage by NATO members drops out of the media -- if it ever appears in the first place.
I was saying that I think that's what the parent is talking about.
There have been many examples of cloned tech in China's recent history, though, so I'm not sure where your outrage is coming from. I didn't say anything about Chinese people as a race.
Why would they not steal technology? It's profitable. It's good for the PRC elite, it's good for the chinese people. The only losers --and in the space exploration game I'm not sure there are any-- are foreign IP owners or states.
They don't need to steal the tech. They can just send their students to our universities and we'll teach it to them. I think that's how they developed their nuclear technology - they just went to MIT and we showed them how it was done.
Funded it? Are you talking about the US's financial relationships with China? That's just trade. If you're implying espionage, that's a bit of a stretch, at least for the US; the carrier rocket used is rather similar to a Soviet/Russian Proton, though scaled down, while the orbiters are Soyuz-like. The US hasn't produced a large hydrazine rocket in decades, and has never produced a Soyuz-like orbiter, so espionage there is improbable.
"We can never count on other countries to sell their mature technologies to us, so we have to rely on our own, ..."
Especially considering the large amount of hacking of western technology companies and government that is originating from Chinese military universities.
I think your referring to the apollo soyuz project, but that was not the first time two spacecraft have docked.
I can't remember specifically the first time that two spacecraft docked, but in terms of manned US, I think it was gemini 8. But I'm pretty sure unmanned spacecraft have docked before that and the russians may have done it before the americans have
You're thinking of Appollo-Soyuz, which happened in the 70's. the first space docking was in the Gemini program, Gemini 8, which docked to an american Agena upperstage.
The Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot. That seems like a reasonable accomplishment, even if somebody in "The West" has done it before.
These photos seriously look more like underwater photos than space photos. That supposed space-walk China had clearly showed bubbles coming from the spacesuits. ... Bubbles. In Space. Mhm...
@randallsquared... Thank you for balancing out my post. Read the article you posted. Does it address the never changing backdrop? Also notice how it only addresses the epoch times article. There were 100s of other skeptics. The author has an adgenda agaist epoch times, no doubt.
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[ 6.9 ms ] story [ 68.4 ms ] threadInsane irony considering what has happened to NASA.
Hint: The only reason China gets special attention is it's not a member of Club West. Funny how quickly stories of industrial espionage by NATO members drops out of the media -- if it ever appears in the first place.
Or is this just belligerent racism?
There have been many examples of cloned tech in China's recent history, though, so I'm not sure where your outrage is coming from. I didn't say anything about Chinese people as a race.
"We can never count on other countries to sell their mature technologies to us, so we have to rely on our own, ..."
Especially considering the large amount of hacking of western technology companies and government that is originating from Chinese military universities.
Hopefully it will continue like this and pull more technical innovation into China like it did for both Russia and the U.S.
The first time that two spacecraft have ever docked in orbit was, I believe, the Gemini/Soyuz joint missions in the middle of the previous century.
I can't remember specifically the first time that two spacecraft docked, but in terms of manned US, I think it was gemini 8. But I'm pretty sure unmanned spacecraft have docked before that and the russians may have done it before the americans have
The Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 docking, achieved by the USSR in 1967, was unmanned and completely automated.