Designed specifically to launch space station modules into low Earth orbit, the Long March 5B uniquely uses a core stage and four side boosters to place its payload directly into low Earth orbit. However this core stage is now also in orbit and is likely to make an uncontrolled reentry…
Much of that space station was designed by Russia. No, it wasn’t due to collaboration between the two countries but because China sent people to work in the Russian space business and they helped themselves to much of the information that they had access to.
Also, China has had a habit of dropping spent rocket stages on its own people. Once in a while, there have been reports of some rural village or another getting hardware dumped on it. One of the problems is that there is often residual fuel remaining and that stuff can be toxic or corrosive.
Oh no! So now Xi has No Dong technology?
That’s OK, I’m sure that his many international partners will give his Dong back to him, if it gets battered around and then stuck in the mud in their nations.
(is that too Korean?)
Maybe it will land on Wuhan.
The Soviet Cosmonaut program wasn’t much to write home about either. They took a crude and jury-rigged approach which often led to the demise of cosmonauts whenever a system failure occurred, which was way more often than the comparatively few deadly accidents NASA had.
Sending astronauts into space is easy. Bringing them back alive and well to tell the tale is another story…
Rideau Cottage Rideau Cottage Rideau Cottage…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rideau_Cottage
Made in the USA:
A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone’s farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2) — about one week after the falling rocket debris sparked reports of “shooting stars” the U.S. Pacific Northwest… According to Ars Technica, “there was not enough propellant after this launch to ignite the Merlin engine and complete the burn. So the propellant was vented into space, and the second stage was set to make a more uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere.”
– http://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-debris-found-washington-farm
Hopefully, it will drop on the White House.
If the house is a rockin, come on in.
Space Gooks. Go figure. How thoughtful and kind of them as per usual. The only good news about the Chinese space program is that there will be Chinese people piloting their craft. Based upon the driving behaviour of the average Chinese person in the Lower Mainland, there should be an awful lot of accidents. Ka-Boom!