Commercial knockoff engineering not = real engineering. Beside, making rocket use the same rocket theory, the only difference is NASA wish to put companies logo on their rocket while the Chinese don't.
The Chinese would never need to copy the Space Shuttle since they had rocket technology long before the white man dreamed of flying. Check out this dude named Wan-Hu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu This Asian dude might have been the first man to go into orbital flight.
You've never seen a recent Chinese space vehicle before? Picture a red twenty-storied high gunpowder-filled fireworks rocket. They just have to remember to stand back a distance when they light the fuse with a match.
China made orbital launches much cheaper by combining space technology and pyrotechnics. Unfortunately, if the black powder is a teeny bit unstable, they might rediscover the "Big Bang" theory.
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I thought that was the russian communist symbol. Unless they both use the same. The chinese will probably make rockets from NASA 'knockoffs'
Commercial knockoff engineering not = real engineering. Beside, making rocket use the same rocket theory, the only difference is NASA wish to put companies logo on their rocket while the Chinese don't.
You know I'm not serious.
The Chinese would never need to copy the Space Shuttle since they had rocket technology long before the white man dreamed of flying.
Check out this dude named Wan-Hu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu This Asian dude might have been the first man to go into orbital flight.
You've never seen a recent Chinese space vehicle before? Picture a red twenty-storied high gunpowder-filled fireworks rocket. They just have to remember to stand back a distance when they light the fuse with a match.
China made orbital launches much cheaper by combining space technology and pyrotechnics. Unfortunately, if the black powder is a teeny bit unstable, they might rediscover the "Big Bang" theory.
NASA use engines developed for the Soviet planned space voyage to the moon, so whos knocking whom?
Btw, arent chinese astros called "taikonauts"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut#China