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Re: Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

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Post by chillacy » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

chiph wrote: post #63

manarth wrote: post #58

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It sounds like there are mixed opinions on that - the Chinese docking system is reportedly a clone of the Russian APAS-89/APAS-95 docking system (which is also in use on the ISS). So it's possible, but there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer at the moment.

I would have thought there would have been a technology transfer amongst the spacefaring nations, so that just in case they could dock with each other.

Also, China was apparently banned from the ISS in 1999 in order to prevent technology transfer.

Re: Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

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Post by madaxe_again » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:32 AM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #88

smileysteve wrote: post #66

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By going directly from the moon to shuttle, you conveniently forget Skylab. Also, something about hubble.

I didn't mention them (but I'm very well aware of them) because they're not very relevant to the point. Skylab was a great project and good utilization of leftovers from the Apollo program (although the Soviets did much better with Salyut -> Mir -> ISS when it comes to technology reuse). The end of Skylab was a bit embarrassing as it did not survive long enough to be serviced by the shuttle and there were no more Sat…

No. America is better because it is America. You can't be better than the best, it's logically impossible.

Re: Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 10:21 AM UTC

ChoHag wrote: post #116

anc84 wrote: post #33

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If personal, economical gain is your goal, yes.

Personal, econonical gain can suck my dick. I can think of hardly anything that's less important.

Would you mind moderating your language a bit?

Re: Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

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Post by sctb » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:13 PM UTC

ChoHag wrote: post #116

anc84 wrote: post #33

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If personal, economical gain is your goal, yes.

Personal, econonical gain can suck my dick. I can think of hardly anything that's less important.

When we ask users repeatedly to comment civilly and substantively and they don't, we have to ban them. We've done so here.