Elon Musk’s SpaceX surpasses China’s space agency in the number of passengers sent into orbit (22 vs 20). Now #3 behind NASA (~904) and Russia (~407)

[Hamartia Antidote]

Are you going to buy one from the supermarket?

You mean like the Russian supermarket you shopped for your 'indigenous' Shenzhou?

Shenzhou (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

spacecraft followed the general layout of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with three modules that could separate for reentry. China signed a deal with Russia in 1995 for the transfer of Soyuz technology, including life support and docking systems.

 

[OIO]

You mean like the Russian supermarket you shopped for your 'indigenous' Shenzhou?

Shenzhou (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

China independently develops, builds and operates its own space station. Let's talk when you are done!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

China independently develops, builds and operates its own space station. Let's talk when you are done!

LOL! We already indigenously built one much larger than your unbelievably puny one 50 years ago.

We can probably fit your entire space station sq footage in just this one room

..no need to leech off Russian tech either...like you guys always need to do.

 

[OIO]

LOL! We already indigenously built one much larger than your unbelievably puny one 50 years ago.

We can probably fit your entire space station sq footage in just this one room

..no need to leech off Russian tech either...like you guys always need to do.

The United States has been stealing technology since the Soviet Union. It did not develop a space station successfully and has to cooperate with Russia on the International Space Station.

Come talk to me when the United States has its own independent space station!

 

[DabbuSardar]

Are you going to buy one from the supermarket?

You build them like our iPhones and we buy them.

Good deal all around!!!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The United States has been stealing technology since the Soviet Union. It did not develop a space station successfully and has to cooperate with Russia on the International Space Station.

Come talk to me when the United States has its own independent space station!

LOL!

Even your space station has Russian airlock doors which connect to your Soyuz spacecraft doors.

Your complete reliance on Russian tech trickles down into your space station.

Your astronauts wear Soyuz space suits due to the specific life support connectors.

Russian spacesuits

Chinese Shenzhou 16 space suits


Meanwhile..

US astronaut suits

 

[OIO]

LOL!

Even your space station has Russian airlock doors which connect to your Soyuz spacecraft doors.

Your complete reliance on Russian tech trickles down into your space station.

Your astronauts wear Soyuz space suits.

This is naked jealousy!

Let me just ask you a question, when will the US space station go to space?

You have been studying the space station from Russia for so many years!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This is naked jealousy!

No, this shows the Chinese have to turn to the dreaded white man for help when it comes to modernizing.

Let me just ask you a question, when will the US space station go to space?

When the ISS is determined to be at the end of its useful life (~2030)...the same thing that will happen with your Tiangong space station.

NASA eyeing SpaceX's Starship as possible space station

Starship could serve as a space station with a diverse set of uses.

www.space.com

NASA eyeing SpaceX's Starship as possible space station​

SpaceX is getting some advice from NASA to investigate the possibility of converting its huge new Starship vehicle into an orbital destination.

If the idea comes to fruition, Starship could offer a wide variety of accommodations for on-orbit research and commercialization.

For NASA, Starship presents another option in a line of possible space stations and technological developments in the works to support an emerging economy in low Earth orbit (LEO). The International Space Station (ISS) is expected to reach its operational end by 2030, and the space agency has been preparing for its eventual demise.

Over the past few years, NASA has entered agreements with several companies to support the development of commercial LEO space stations, including a $415 million award divided between Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Nanoracks, and an agreement with Axiom Space to dock their own commercial modules to the ISS. Axiom's hardware will eventually separate, becoming a free-flying private outpost.

NASA Will Make SpaceX Starship into Space Stations | NextBigFuture.com

NASA will partner with SpaceX to make Starship space stations. This is part of NASA partnering with seven U.S. companies to make advanced space capabilities.

www.nextbigfuture.com

You have been studying the space station from Russia for so many years!

Well you have been directly using Russian tech for years.

 

[OIO]

No, this shows the Chinese have to turn to the dreaded white man for help when it comes to modernizing.



When the ISS is determined to be at the end of its useful life...the same thing that will happen with your Tiangong space station.



Well you have been directly using Russian tech for years.

Hope the astronauts on the International Space Station are safe. It is irresponsible for the United States to prolong the use of the International Space Station for the sake of the face of a superpower.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Hope the astronauts on the International Space Station are safe. It is irresponsible for the United States to prolong the use of the International Space Station for the sake of the face of a superpower.

They are doing fine..all 11 of them

 

[gavanHoverswell]

Congratulations to SpaceX for launching 4 more space tourists into orbit using the modern 7 person Crew Dragon! This makes a total of 22 passengers! It has taken only 23 months to reach and exceed the 20 passenger mark.

Axiom Space's private Ax-1 crew (from left): pilot Larry Connor; Mark Pathy, mission specialist; López-Alegría , commander; and Eytan Stibbe, mission specialist. (Image credit: Axiom Space)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512398808537186304

Crew Dragon: 22
Total: 22

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China:
Shenzhou: 20
Total: 20

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Russia:
Vostok: 6
Voskhod: 2
Soyuz: ~399
Total : ~407

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NASA:
Mercury: 6
Gemini: 20
Apollo : 45
Space Shuttle: ~833
Total : ~904

good to see things ramping up in the commercial western space biz

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Soyuz spacecraft launches to International Space Station from Kazakhstan​

The Soyuz MS-24/70S crew during training (left to right): NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, commander Oleg Kononenko and co-pilot Nikolai Chub.

Russia:
Vostok: 6
Voskhod: 2
Soyuz: ~405
Total : ~413

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

China launches new 3-astronaut crew to Tiangong space station

The crew will perform Tiangong's first maintenance spacewalk after debris strikes.

www.space.com

China:
Shenzhou: 32
Total: 32