China in Space
China has done it, and it was a great story to follow. If you read the accounts coming out of China, you know that everything is carefully orchestrated. The country will look good. The government will look good. The military will look good. It's also interesting to read the American media reporting on the feat. They're almost grudging in their reports, acting like a cool kid who just witnessed someone else doing something cool, and is having troubles acknowledging it. Read the CNN reports ... they can't even acknowledge that China calls their astronauts, taikonauts (the Russians have had cosmonauts since the beginning) ... CNN refers to them as the "so called taikonauts." Regardless, as NASA said, it's a great achievement in space exploration.
China has done it, and it was a great story to follow. If you read the accounts coming out of China, you know that everything is carefully orchestrated. The country will look good. The government will look good. The military will look good. It's also interesting to read the American media reporting on the feat. They're almost grudging in their reports, acting like a cool kid who just witnessed someone else doing something cool, and is having troubles acknowledging it. Read the CNN reports ... they can't even acknowledge that China calls their astronauts, taikonauts (the Russians have had cosmonauts since the beginning) ... CNN refers to them as the "so called taikonauts." Regardless, as NASA said, it's a great achievement in space exploration.
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