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News on China’s Space Program

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America may have ditched its space shuttle; China retains its lunar plans
Jul 29, 2011 (WiC 117)

"We are first; we are the best; and we are so because we’re free” was Ronald Reagan’s confident take on the prospects for the International Space Station programme, when he first announced it in 1984. Fast-forward to 2011 and that ...

China gets one step closer to landing on the moon
Oct 8, 2010 (WiC 81)

When you think of China and Mars, you may think of the US confectioner and its mouthwatering efforts to persuade a nation to tuck into its Dove chocolate bars (see WiC55). But Beijing’s ambitions go beyond sweet-tooth targets. Chinese ...

New light on the “stupidest thing” America ever did
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

Confrontations in space have tended to be spectacular, although mostly they’ve been of the fictional variety. You know the type of thing – the well-tested genre of zero gravity battles, highjacked space shuttles and exploding lunar ...

A Chinese inventor gets to the bottom of outer space’s most serious problem
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

Technology should be there to serve mankind’s most basic needs, even in outer space. Enter Jin Xukai, an inventor who is likely to join the ranks of other toilet visionaries such as Alexander Cummings, George Jennings and Thomas ...

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