China sets new annual record with launch of manned Shenzhou-15 to space station
China today successfully used its Long March 2F rocket to launch three astronauts on a six month mission to its Tiangong-3 space station, setting a new annual national record for launches in a single year.
China’s previous high of 52 successfully launches was achieved last year. This launch, with about five weeks left in the year, is its 53rd in 2022.
This mission will also be the first on Tiangong-3 where there will be an overlap of two crews, with six people occupying the station for a short while.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
54 SpaceX
53 China
20 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 78 to 53 in the national rankings, while trailing the rest of the world combined 83 to 78.
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China today successfully used its Long March 2F rocket to launch three astronauts on a six month mission to its Tiangong-3 space station, setting a new annual national record for launches in a single year.
China’s previous high of 52 successfully launches was achieved last year. This launch, with about five weeks left in the year, is its 53rd in 2022.
This mission will also be the first on Tiangong-3 where there will be an overlap of two crews, with six people occupying the station for a short while.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
54 SpaceX
53 China
20 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 78 to 53 in the national rankings, while trailing the rest of the world combined 83 to 78.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. All editions can also be purchased direct from the ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
I watched this with amusement.
The announcers commented that this launched from China’s East Coast.
As opposed to… The West coast??
Sippin_bourbon: The launch site was in the Gobi Desert. Not near any coast that I am aware of.
Sipping_Bourbon, yes all the Shenzhou launches are from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, out in the Gobi Desert. You are probably thinking of the Tiangong module launches with the CZ-5B out at Wenchang, on the coast of Hainan.
I somehow think that China is just launching this much in order to keep up with SpaceX.
Unless they are weaponizing space.