China Moon Landing.

[Hemsy]

Looking forward to it...and hopefully by the time they get there I'll have a kick ass scope to watch the action live....

[jam1e1]

Think always good to have at least a few competitors in the game as that what drives innovation and better ways of working. Many commercial products have been born out of direct or indirect innovations in military/government space. Often the joint learnings can make better overall products.

[todd8137]

lets hope they send a man they will b the first men on the moon,i read a report the other day they are still worried about radiation

[Earl]

lets get the basics right before we go off doing flights of fancy eh?

Edited:

Human rights are not the subject here.

No politics, I'm getting fed up of repeating myself.

Edited January 1, 2012 by barkis

[davo]

The Moon :-) the Moon :-) the Moon :-) yes please :-)

I'd love to see the next landing.. another man on on Moon! fantastic! with a new agenda, new aims and new goals :-) and to go through all that excitment from the Apollo era i only see on utube lol, live tv coverage, history in the making rightly or wrongly i hope i get to see it :-D

[Quatermass]

I find the moderation on this subject too harsh I am out of here sorry.

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[UnderTheRain]

I kind of doubt any sort of mining is the goal behind the Chinese moon program. Anything you can mine on the moon you can find here at a much lower price. [\QUOTE]

Apart from helium 3 which the moon has in abundance that the earth has none off. Russia and China said years ago that they planned to mine for it on the moon as did nasa I believe. It'll be used in next gen reactors. Estimated value? One trillion dollars a ton. How do you get it? You heat moon rock (which has a large water content) to extract the water, split it into hydrogen (fuel) and oxygen (to breath) keep heating the rock and at (I think from memory) 800 degrees it gives off helium 3. Since the moon has no magnetic protection or atmosphere the whole surface has been absoring the h 3 for as long at its been there.

It was a while ago I read about it but the plan was China to be on the moon in 2020 and Russia 2025 (being largely a commercial venture). Plus if you can produce hydrogen and oxygen cheaply on the moon it will serve as a lauch pad for those asteroids. I read that the mineral value of the nearest mineable asteroid was 100 trillion dollars of gold 100 trillian dollars of platinum and 100 trillion dollars of other elements.

It's just a pity that all the nations can't pool their resources for the good of all to get out into space but with so much potential profit in off world mining it might be businesses that take the next step.

Nasa being publicly funded must respect and be accountable to the economic needs of that public. But now space travel is becoming more commercial the technologies in use will become cheaper. Each shuttle lauch was $500million hopefully one day governments everywhere won't be so paranoid and release some of the tech into the public domain to allow businesses to make cost effective launch systems. There's a lot of data and tech that the Usa, Russia and China have that businesses could use. Ah one day we might be one world (without money and borders all working for the common good - um that's all a bit star trek lol)

Brian

Edited January 1, 2012 by UnderTheRain

[Earl]

lets get the basics right before we go off doing flights of fancy eh?

Edited:

Human rights are not the subject here.

No politics, I'm getting fed up of repeating myself.

Sorry that was not my intent

[Dave Dubya]

I find the moderation on this subject too harsh I am out of here sorry.

Indeed.

[Ant]

Indeed.

We do not allow the discussion of politics on SGL - END OF STORY.

That doesn't mean you can can discuss a little bit, Ron is quite right in what he did.

I was rather hoping that people were here for the astronomy...? But if you do not like our policy on politics then please feel free to post on one of the other popular astronomy forums

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Cheers

Ant

[heathenwoods]

I think I'll encourage my nine year old to learn Chinese if he wants to fulfil his ambition to be a, "space doctor." :-)

Really pleased that there is an ambition to take humans back to the Moon; hats off to China (and its international partners which includes... Britain )

Edited January 1, 2012 by heathenwoods

[DAVE AMENDALL]

 According to reports,I see the Chinese have discovered a mysterious gel like substance on the far side of the moon? Probably tooth paste left behind by a previous Alien mission.............Dave