Bolden Wants To Continue to Work With China on Space Projects
US and China partner on small-scale space projects, South China Morning Post
“Bai expressed gratitude for US help on China’s space programmes. Nasa, for instance, provided “enormous help” with the construction of satellite ground stations for remote sensing, he was quoted by the statement as saying. Bai said the two sides were co-operating on space geodesy, which dealt with the three-dimensional measurement of the earth. The co-operation had been going on for years and has produced encouraging results. China hoped the collaboration could continue. .. Bolden said Nasa was “highly serious” about working with the Chinese. He wished for more co-operation in fields such as space-to-earth observation. Representatives with several academy institutes, such as National Space Centre and Shanghai Astronomical Observation Centre, had attended the event. Neither Nasa nor the agency responded to the Post’s inquiries about the meeting.”
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I don’t agree with everything Bolden does but he is absolutely right on this. For one off only two nations that can currently launch humans into space to be excluded from the international space station is absurd.
If China could separate their space program from their military, I could support this.
You could, but could Rep. Frank Wolf (R)?
Like our space program is separate from our military??
Wow that was great of Bai to say, and great to hear. And the comments by the Beihang University person at the bottom were insightful.
If present trends continue, we can either cooperate with others on space exploration or be known as a joke to the world with ambitious plans that are always 20 years out and will never be achieved.