China Launches Two Astronauts Into Spacein their second manned space mission just two years after becoming only the third nation to launch a human into orbit. Astronauts Fei Julong and Nie Haisheng took off Wednesday at 9:00 pm EST (0100 GMT) for a mission that could last up to five days.
How come I suspect it's a little more than that... Here's a little blurb from the wikipedia article on the Chinese Space Program.
China's space program has several goals. The first is to increase China's national prestige. The second is to develop China as a low cost satellite launcher. Finally, there is the ambitious goal of mining space for resources, namely the moon.
there are still many question that has to be answered but i think that china will become a leader in this market. As it has take over the world economy, it can take over USA in this area too.
Now china will be planning to send there men to the moon.
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