Chang’e-5 sample capsule docks with return vehicle in lunar orbit
According to the official Chinese state-run press Chang’e-5’s capsule containing samples from the Moon has successfully rendezvoused and docked with its return vehicle in lunar orbit, the first time an unmanned craft has done such a thing autonomously.
The news report at this point provides no other details, other than to state that the return capsule and orbiter will next separate from the ascent capsule and “wait for the right time to return to Earth.” Earlier reports had suggested an arrival on Earth around December 16, which would suggest an exit from lunar orbit in about a week.
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According to the official Chinese state-run press Chang’e-5’s capsule containing samples from the Moon has successfully rendezvoused and docked with its return vehicle in lunar orbit, the first time an unmanned craft has done such a thing autonomously.
The news report at this point provides no other details, other than to state that the return capsule and orbiter will next separate from the ascent capsule and “wait for the right time to return to Earth.” Earlier reports had suggested an arrival on Earth around December 16, which would suggest an exit from lunar orbit in about a week.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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It‘s great to see American know-how & American dollars used to return to The Moon. It‘s just the wrong government doing it!
Here is a video of the automatic docking in lunar orbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_tOl_-4Dfo
China has made great strides not only in space technologies but also in computers (see link). Next important propaganda steps for China could be sample return from Phobos and then from Mars.
It’s strange to me that the West helped communist China get this far!!!
“Jiuzhang achieves quantum supremacy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h09hB2W44-I
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
(“Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed.”)
Thermonuclear Strike
https://youtu.be/S-V6MZlyCqE
2:22
Some important breaking news: “Taylor Swifts pumpkin cookie recipe is amazing”
Jeff will find this important.