Driven to gain their own manned capability, I would hope. Espically as
they have a not-so-driven interest now….

   Frank

>William Baird <wba…@acca.nmsu.edu> writes:

>>I would wonder how the Europeans and Japanese will feel about China having
>>a manned orbtial capability and they not…

>   Driven to gain their own manned capability, I would hope. Espically as
>they have a not-so-driven interest now….

>   Frank

Japan’s Hyflex and HOPE programmes suggest that they at least are
thinking towards a manned capability. As for Europe, her arteries appear
a little more sclerotic. I suppose it might put more life into FESTIP.
Time to ask some of our MPs, I feel
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Michael Martin-Smith

> pscl…@dircon.co.uk (Phillip Clark) writes:

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> >The word ‘hacker’, although once a noble term describing a smart
> >programmer who would fix things by using quick’n'dirty fixes nobody
> >else could understand, has changed its meaning, and only a fool would
> >be proud to call himself a hacker now.
>         What ya calling me a fool????;)  I prefer the term :
>                                         "ingenuitly gifted"
>                 -always avail. to those who can e-mail;Sean Nelson

—
—
—
Does this mean hacker goes back to the terminology for a
bad golfer?

Hacker’s are good guys who go into code and write it or fix
it more by trained intuition than science and planning.  While
I have "hacked" some code to make quick fixes I never felt I
was quite good enough to call myself a hacker.

One talented hacker said no program should be written that
could not be understood by a single person.  This particular
hacker would not have cared for some of the very large
projects I have worked on that had hundreds of software
developers working to produce large software components
that integrated with other large software components
which no one person had any hope of understanding.

Forgive me, this has no real relation to either the
Chinese Space Program or the topics that should be
addressed on sci.space.policy

Mike Walsh

:       Willing to wager????  I’ll give ya 10 to 1 odds Chinese will have
: not performed a manned space mission ( >7 days in 1 strech in low earth
: orbit or higher) by April 1st 2000 AD.  Thats how sure I am.

I am not a gambler in that sense !   However, using your >7 days criteria
the US did not have a space mission until Gemini 5 in 1965 and Russians
not until 1970 with Soyuz 9 !   Tell that to Gagarin, Glenn, Scott
Carpenter, G Titov, Schirra, etc, etc, etc.

BTW, in your date you did not specify the time zone it relates to !

Phillip Clark

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        Willing to wager????  I’ll give ya 10 to 1 odds Chinese will have
not performed a manned space mission ( >7 days in 1 strech in low earth
orbit or higher) by April 1st 2000 AD.  Thats how sure I am.

—————————————————————————–
>The word ‘hacker’, although once a noble term describing a smart
>programmer who would fix things by using quick’n'dirty fixes nobody
>else could understand, has changed its meaning, and only a fool would
>be proud to call himself a hacker now.

        What ya calling me a fool????;)  I prefer the term :
                                        "ingenuitly gifted"
                -always avail. to those who can e-mail;Sean Nelson

My suggestion is around three years.   Maybe I am an optimist !  Check my
article in the April 1997 issue of Jane’s Intelligence Review: "Chinese
designs on the race to space.   In this I try to bring together all of
the reports which have appeared concerning the Chinese manned space
programme.   I am sure that a few people will disagree, but this time I
think that the Chinese are serious about a manned flight.

Phillip Clark

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Molniya Space Consultancy                             Whitton
Compiler/Publisher, Worldwide Satellite Launches      Middx   TW4 5NA
Editor, Jane’s Space Directory                        U.K.
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>    ANY idea of what their manned rocket time tables are????
>Would you yourself hazard a guess.  My guessestamite == 10 to 30years

The Chinese were saying they’d put someone up in orbit by 2000.  That time
table may have been pushed back by the Lawn Munches (errrm…better be
more PC than that!  ;)) Long March failures.

I would wonder how the Europeans and Japanese will feel about China having
a manned orbtial capability and they not…

 Will

–
Will Baird  email:  wba…@acca.nmsu.edu  http://essex.nmsu.edu/~scomputi/
Phantoms!  Whenever I think I fully understand mankind’s purpose on earth…
suddenly I see phantoms dancing in the shadows…[saying] pointly as words,
"What you know is nothing little man; what you have to learn, immense." – CD

        ANY idea of what their manned rocket time tables are????
Would you yourself hazard a guess.  My guessestamite == 10 to 30years

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