YESTERDAY, on September 28, 2008, the People’s Republic of China performed their FIRST EVER SPACEWALK aboard the Shenzhou 7 mission.
China became the third country to spacewalk and perform EVAs.
The spacewalk was performed by Zhai Zhigang in his Chinese-designed Feitian spacesuit and also by Liu Boming in his Orlan-M spacesuit. The third crewmember, Jing Haipeng, […]
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For some reason the verbiage of the ancient Daoists appeals to me greatly. Behold the Daoist Cosmogenesis …
All cause and effect is due to the Dao, the Way. The Way can be explained as the reason or cause of everything which followed.
Before Dao there was: Wu-wu (Not Nothing).
With Dao there was: Wu Ji (No […]
Not much new except a step up in the rhetoric coming out of Beijing. China’s space ambitions are not exactly secret, as far as I’m concerned human motivation into space is just another step in a logical progression of human expansion out into the solar system. My concern is chiefly with the utilization […]
The violent quake that shook China’s Sichuan province on Monday is linked to a shift of the Tibetan plateau to the north and east, specialists at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics told AF
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tibetan_tectonics_trigger_China_quake_geologists_999.html
According to the 1933 obituaries in both Time Magazine and the New York Times, Li Ching-Yun was reported to have buried 23 wives and fostered 180 descendants by the time he died at the age of 256.
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In 2007, the Chinese government conducted its 100th space launch with a Long March rocket, carried out a successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test, commenced operations of the Beidou satellite navigation and positioning system, and launched its Chang’e 1 lunar orbiter. A busy year for Beijing, and one punctuated by the now-regular annual deployment of an additional […]
