China and India in Race to the Moon

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 11:59 PM EDT

Article Source: FT.com

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China and India are both planning to launch moon shots within a year in the latest sign of the two Asian powerhouses' intensifying rivalry and growing technological prowess.

Although both countries deny they are engaged in a 21st century re-run of the 1960s race to the moon between the cold war superpowers, their haste to launch suggests more than casual interest in the other's progress.

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China said this month that it expected to launch its first unmanned lunar orbiter, the Chang'e-1 (named after China's mythological "lady in the moon") before the end of this year, while India this week announced that it could send up a similar space probe as early as April 2008.

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{"commentId":747689,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}

Raat ki Raani

When they get there, can they please try and land on exactly the same spot as Apollo 11 and either prove or debunk all the conspiracy theorists who have made a small fortune extolling why Neil Armstrong was walking somewhere in Arizona instead of on the moon.

Or will the guys claim that the evdience was blown away?

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#1 - Thu May 31, 2007 3:29 PM EDT

{"commentId":747831,"authorDomain":"wingod"}

space guy

The Apollo 11 landing site is a U.N. World Heritage site. They could land at any of the other sites though.

We went to the Moon with humans six times.

Anyone who pays anyone related to something like that is an idiot.

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#2 - Thu May 31, 2007 4:18 PM EDT

{"commentId":748314,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}

Raat ki Raani

Good to see that you also have scant regard for the conspiracy theorists. They irritate me too:-)

The Apollo 11 landing site is a U.N. World Heritage site

This is good to know. Yoy get smarter here! I guess that the Indians and Chinese will have to land elsewhere. But atleast they will be able to visit the site and confirm the evidence for once and for all. They cannot be denied the opportunity anyway, and we would not want to feed those theorists anwyay.

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#2.1 - Thu May 31, 2007 7:04 PM EDT

{"commentId":748797,"authorDomain":"wingod"}

space guy

Ask yourself this question.

Have you ever heard of any government project that half a million people worked on where no one ratted them out?

Didn't think so.

No one who ever actually worked on the program even once made such a claim.

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#2.2 - Thu May 31, 2007 11:20 PM EDT

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