Refuting crap with a reputable citation
You clowns make all sorts of b.s. claims. I shoot you down with reputable citations.
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China Launches its First Woman Astronaut - Businessweek
"The U.S. ended its three-decade manned space-shuttle program last year and now has no manned spaceflight capability."
Martian2, you and Senator John Glenn and all and every cr@py journalists such as the Business Weekly should all renounce your US citizenship! according to a fanatic in PDF.
I would chalk this up as another failure of the Obama regime. That is why Americans will vote him out this Nov. US certainly have the ability to send man to space. But because of lack of leadership and failure to plan, US is left without a human space launch system. It takes a politicians to mess things up.
Romney is even a worse sh!t. He is yet anohter extremist: good at creating enemies and bad at solving problems, though Obama indeed let us down Prey for ourselves.
Back to the topic.
I think US is still ahead of China many decades (one or two) in OVERALL space technologies and knowledge. However, due to that fact that this government is by, of, and for the 1%, the fundamentalists and fanatics mismanage the finance, space industry in US is simply paralyzed and can send man to space for a number of years, whereas China at the same time can indeed.
US might have to wait for private SpaceX.
In addition, no fatal accident now in China doesnt mean it would be the same in future. Reportedly Chinese LES (Launch Escape System) is pretty capable, perhaps the 1-st rate. Hope that can withstands real test. (9-year ago report
Long-March Rocket 2F has adopted 55 new technologies for the first time, including the key technologies of rocket trouble inspection system and escape system, which are rated as "world-class thorny problems". With the availability of several hundred data on trouble modules and escape judgment, automatic inspection and automatic trouble diagnosis of the carrier rocket have been realized during the ready-to-launch stage and rocket ascending stage, which in turn can send trouble occurrence information to escape system so as to realize automatic escape of the astronaut and ground commanded escape.
In order to increase the reliability and safety of the rocket, the main systems and key sections of Long-March Rocket 2F have adopted redundant technology. Therefore in case the main system has troubles, the backup system will be switched on immediately to secure the normal operation of the rocket.
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