Hi everyone. Pat here. with a Space update. Not everyone is aware of the ambitious space program the Chinese are pursuing. Currently, the Shenzhou 9 space ship is orbiting our planet. It is to dock sometime between midnight Sunday and noon Monday with the Tiangong One Module.
Tiangong means "heavenly palace" in Chinese. The news media, seem to center their attention to the fact that one of the crewmen on this mission is a woman. Liu Yang, 33, an Air Force Major and pilot. But I am more interested in the mission.
This is the first time the Chinese have docked with another space craft, and is one more step in the road, toward a moon landing. The Chinese goal is to land men from earth upon the Moon in the next decade. And for all the world, no one seems to notice.
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