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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Friday, October 10, 2003 ::
Shenzhou Update Well, it's official--the flight is next week, as early as Tuesday, U.S. time. With all the comparisons to the Soyuz, etc., it turns out the Chinese are borrowing one of the cooler aspects of the Russian space program, despite claims this mission has no miliary element. Meanwhile, Chinese citizens are borrowing from the American public in anticipating the flight. Addendum: Space.com has comments from Aldrin saying the U.S. should work with China, which is particularly interesting in light of his space-futurist novel Encoutner With Tiber, in which the Chinese are the uncooperative partners in an international space mission that in a way lead to astronauts dying. Also, the story has an error of the sort you don't expect from Space.com--the U.S. does not, and currently cannot, by Soyuz from the Russians.