Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on December 15, 2013, 12:35:46 AM
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For those who have been living on the moon and not paying attention to recent news, you now have a Chinese robot with you . . .
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/14/chinese-spacecraft-lands-moon-china (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/14/chinese-spacecraft-lands-moon-china)
You can see a snapshot of the moon from the lander here:
http://science.time.com/2013/12/14/chinas-first-moon-probe-makes-successful-landing/ (http://science.time.com/2013/12/14/chinas-first-moon-probe-makes-successful-landing/)
Technical details:
http://www.spaceflight101.com/change-3.html (http://www.spaceflight101.com/change-3.html)
It looks like the US has some healthy competition to motivate an increased NASA budget! ::)
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Nicely done by the Chinese.
Hope to see the remains of the US and USSR on the moon.
See who will claim the moon first. US, USSR, China ?
I hope there will be a (united- all countries) spacecenter so we can discover the moon.
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No need for the US to 'save face' and go to the moon again. We put people there like 50 years ago using computers that could barely run a digital watch. Multiple times. :P
Unless there is $$$ to be made on the moon, Mars is where the US needs to be. No?
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On Mars would be nice also. My opinion is that space exploration is a bit slow at the moment.
Nobody loses face as I see it, space exploration is difficult enough.