Chinese land on the moon?

You are wrong with that as well. Both the russian Roskosmos and our european ESA / Astrium shot more satellites into space than NASA does.

The american space industry is in a sad state. The ISS depends on logistics from ESA, JAXA, Roskosmos. And NASA is even incapable to launch human beings into space.

Your space program erodes faster than Lindsay Lohans fame.

 

The Russians didn't have a rover on the moon until 1970. Our last Lunar mission was in 1972.

 

Are you including all the CNES launches in those numbers?

 

Congratulations to China on a successful moon landing. Now, if they were smart, they would steal the American Flag, bring it back and auction it off to pay for their next space launch.

 

It is a white flag now because the UV radiation bleeched it out. Sweet irony.

 

Wonderful. Four decades behind the Soviets.

 

not really. they rear ended our moon. damn asian drivers!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1

1958-1969 we had a man on it.

methinks India will beat them there.

 

You gots proof or is it all hearsay? The shuttle missions were unmatched in sending satellites and people into space. How long did it take everyone else to catch up?

It's completely disappointing that NASA scrapped the shuttle instead of improving it's design. But then again our entire country is eroding so whatever. No surprise.

 

the shuttle was madness and a failed concept. You risk 7 peoples life to send a satellite into space, a task that a unmanned rocket can achieve as well...14 people paid with their lifes for that madness.

 

Moon is a big rock that doesn't move much. We landed a probe on Eros (433), moving at 965 miles per second.

And the Europeans mislead ON PURPOSE...

TRYING to land in 2014 on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's head, bumbling along at a sad 17.62 miles per second. pfff.
http://rt.com/news/european-space-probe-comet-083/

 

Wow what a bunch of beginners. Australia hit Earth with their first satellite - And the Earth was moving at 64,000 miles an hour at the time

 

LOL... there is a difference between hit, and land... and there is a difference between 5.97219×1024 kg and 6.69×1015 kg



"like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse."
Mr. Scott

 

Bottom line is that we should had a lunar base decades ago.

 

All jokes aside, the best effort anyone did was with the Spirit and Opportunity probes. Launched from Earth, no flight correction, no orbital insertion. A 60 odd million mile chip shot, and it not only worked once but twice

 

Thanks Obama.

 

now that is funny.

 

you have no clue what you are talking about. Eros does not move with 965 miles per second. That would be way over the orbital speed and he would fly out of the solar system. Eros moves with 17,4 km/ s per second. That is slower than the comet we try to land on. Beside that, it really is a novum since never before something soft landed on a comet. I have no clue where your wrong numbers come from. You should use the metric system. Its used from the scientific world and prevents such nonsense normally.

 

This is cool, but really we need to get some private space exploration going. Governments can forcibly take as much money as they like, and so can create new technologies without having to bother with voluntary investment and the such (why bother when you can just take it ) - but when it comes to actually implementing that technology they're pretty crap.

We need to get some serious space tourism going, and long term look at getting some commercial mining or something operating.

 

Complete nonsense.
It was lust for power and wealth that lead to that carnage, as well as most others.
It was progress that let us discover germs and vaccines and taught us to put respect for indigenous people above greed or ideology.

 

So what? I don't have to know everything. So I am an idiot American and don't use the metric system so I see mps and think it is miles per second instead of meters per second.

I will (*)(*)(*)(*) you up in scrabble.

 

You still should be aware that no asteroid could go with 965 miles per second. That asteroid would shot right out of the solar system.

 

I wasn't aware asteroids only existed in our solar system. I guess I am just stupid.

 

Last time that happened it did not end well

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric/

 

On a highly technical definition asteroids can only be found in our solar system. Anything passing through is simply a rock. If you are interested I could explain the reason for the difference but I am sure your life would not somehow become richer for knowing the information lol