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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.