China has launched its fifth manned mission, planned to be longest to date.
China has launched its fifth manned mission, planned to be longest to date.
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China has launched its fifth manned mission, planned to be longest to date.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
They are making steady progress and continually surprise us with their accomlishments.
We are in competition with them, whether or not some space cadets wants to recognize or participate in it. And their foreign policy actions as well as hacking efforts show they think they are competeing with us.
There was a recent episode of space vidcast where one of the hosts said she didn’t think they are very progressed because they haven’t sent a man to the moon. Well, niether have we in a long long time. And progress in space shouldn’t be measured by arbitrary accomplishments, it should be measured by current capabilities.
Also, the path countries take in their exploration efforts are not determined by the laws of math and physics, in other words there is no one correct method or order of milestones that must be met. There isn’t a single path for development but many and value judgements of a chosen path should be based on outcomes.
It appears from the outside that China has concrete goals and objectives that support an over arching strategy. Very wise in an industry were it is far too easy to lose a decade or two through programatic failures. Instead of hiding our heads in the sand, it is time to take notice of China’s accomplishments.