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China soars from ancient empire to Space Age power
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:47 PM EDT
Article Source: The Houston Chronicleadvertisement
Half a century after the Soviet Union beat the United States to outer space, China blasted off its first lunar orbiter Wednesday, catapulting the Asian nation onto the front lines of a new space race aimed at giving it bragging rights as a rising world power.
The Chang'e One satellite, named after a mythical beauty who flew to the moon, lifted off under cloudy skies in western China's Sichuan province aboard a Long March A3 rocket. It will spend a year circling and studying the lunar surface and laying the groundwork for the goal of making China the first Asian nation to put an astronaut on the moon.
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Christopher Kraft, flight controller for Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, said that placing a spacecraft in orbit around the moon is a significant achievement.
"It says they've got the capability of computing the orbital mechanics to get there" and achieve a stable orbit, he said by phone from Houston. "But the step between sending an unmanned probe and a manned spacecraft is a big one. At least an order of magnitude, if not two orders."
It's also tremendously more expensive to keep human beings alive on a journey to the moon and back.
"It remains to be seen if they have the technological knowledge and stick-to-itiveness" to go the rest of the way, he said. "If and when they do that, I'll tip my cap to them."
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