It ain't rocket science to understand that once a technology has been mastered it only takes a matter of time before it dominates the world.
Perhaps NASA is more capable than China's space program. But how does it make China's a 2nd rated when there are only 3 countries that have managed to send astraunauts into space? USA, Russia, and China. In this stage of time, there are no 1st class space programs on earth, because everyone is still at the beginning stage to explore the universe. According to a news, NASA is very fond of the new Shenzhou technology.

Why are there people critizing China space program...it benefits EVERYONE that we have more competition in the space race.

Earth is going to blow up, we need to figure out how to get the fuck off of it ;)

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you really need to do some more research

Canada, that's where i belong mother fucker

It's all good. One day we'll end up like Firefly and it'll be a union of China and the US!

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mmm summer glau

It's the 4th agency to do so according to asian_xl's post, I guess that makes it 4th rated. It's the third country to independently send people into space

Is the third agency Scaled Composites with their Ansari X PRIZE winner?

If there's nothing better, the best is 1st class. You can't rate things on imaginary data from the future.

LOL....

Let's all go to HK and get the fan ban shuttle and fly up first.

^I believe the 3rd agency is the European Space Agency.

The amount of funding and hard work needed to explore space takes precision, dedication and time.

What makes you think anything BUT 1st class can accomplish that?

Does Ford have the highest productivity because they were the first to have an assembly line? Are the French best at making cars because they invented it too? Why is China 4th rated because they are the 4th to do so, You gotta be pretty damn stupid to "guess" that. :haha::haha:

Well Google has been in the business for not more than 10 years, and look where they are today.Yes china does have a lot to catch up, but they are advancing at an unprecedented rate.

ranking is a benchmark, you idiot.

europe, russia and USA can do whatever china can do and in addition to that, they can orbitting the earth, having space station up in the space, sending wall-e to another planet, and faking the moon landing...

Conclusion? China is still at the very early stage, so comparatively, China is 2nd class.

soon, china will be sending up citizens in the masses to the moon to take care of their population problem.. or into the sun.

The USA is getting out of space exploration, and China is getting into it.

Crazy.

and what does WW2 and civil war have to do with China's space program?

He's making the point that a society which in 1949 was on the brink of total collapse after half a century of civil war has come so far in such a (comparatively) amount of time.

I only counted one. It's the internet, you can ignore it.

I only counted 1 troll in this thread - the diarrhea of China. We all know who he is. Why is the loser back?

lol
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and i'm making the point that they were on the brink of total collapse after a half a century of civil war because they failed to adapt to the contexts of the time and their successive governments were so rife with corruption and imcompetance that they got their asses handed to them by the europeans.

'if only we didn't have that pesky civil war we could've gotten into space quicker' mentality is bullshit because they put themselves in that position.

i was merely juxtaposing both comments because he answered my question with a question.

'coming so far in half a century' easy to do when someone has already paved the way for you.

...and so what would we expect China to do? remain a backward and poor country? Maybe you should bash Germany and Japan's economic miracle because they got their "asses handed to them" by the Allies. Developing quality electronics when their society is still so backward tsk tsk for shame! Regardless of what you believe to be the merits of space travel over human development, I would rather see a three way space race rather than none. Competition spurs development.

Your "point" really has no merit other than to bash China, tool.

CivicBlues said it best above. You really have no idea what you are talking about.

how about spending the money on something important? like lifting the rest of the 800million people above poverty? universal education? or maybe some practical social reforms? that's what i'd expect them to do.

i'd like to see a modern China that earns respect on the world stage through social reforms, rather then shooting another rocket into space. space ships don't feed people or improve the quality of lives.

always this 'look at me attitude', nothing more then a child.

edit: what the hell does germany and japan have to do with this? they lost, got reformed, and are now respected members of the international community. china lost, turned to communism and are not respected members of the international community.

^very sad indeed

jeezz give china a break already, china's population is 45 times of canada, so i say considering how big the country is, they governement is doing a pretty good job already. Sure it's had its share of problems and issuses, but that's like any other country ie. U.S. And If you actually go to China and ask ppl there, most of them are actully quite happy with the current situtation.

have you been to china ''city'' or china ''rural''?