Mustard on the Moon! China launches far-side Lunar lander with biology onboard, 8th Dec 2018
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Peckham Wry
Not sure how well the mustard will go with Wallaces cheese sandwiches...
My first thought was - on the other side of the moon, we have no line of sight, is the static lander actually just of the border? There is some wobble so it could operate this way but the best would be this, Queqiao, a communication satellite which they launched in May to prepare for this - what? I do not recall that event but total utter respect
"It will settle in an orbit about 455,000 km (282,555 miles) from Earth."
China launch will prep for Moon landing
Definitely time to learned Mandarin.....
My first thought was - on the other side of the moon, we have no line of sight, is the static lander actually just of the border? There is some wobble so it could operate this way but the best would be this, Queqiao, a communication satellite which they launched in May to prepare for this - what? I do not recall that event but total utter respect
"It will settle in an orbit about 455,000 km (282,555 miles) from Earth."
China launch will prep for Moon landing
Definitely time to learned Mandarin.....
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Mustard eh?
Perfect accompaniment for all that cheese.
Perfect accompaniment for all that cheese.
Indeliblelink
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I've eaten some space food.
We grew some rocket seeds that Tim Peake took to to the space station for six months, compared them to some from the same batch that stayed on Earth.
We thought the space seeds rocket tasted more peppery.
We grew some rocket seeds that Tim Peake took to to the space station for six months, compared them to some from the same batch that stayed on Earth.
We thought the space seeds rocket tasted more peppery.
Supine
Newt Member
Indeliblelink
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Probably, that did say we weren't meant to eat the stuff we'd grown 
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2hats
Dust.
Chang’e-4 has been picked up by amateur radio observers who spotted it executing a trajectory correction burn a few hours ago on the way to the Moon (the kink in the gradually changing Doppler shift in frequency highlights the acceleration arising from the manoeuvre). Now well over half way there, it should arrive in lunar orbit around 1500UTC on Tuesday.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
Do you think they'll send people to the moon any time soon? I know there's talk of a Chinese space station in the works.
I'd love to see it in my lifetime, missed the last moon landings by over a decade.
I'd love to see it in my lifetime, missed the last moon landings by over a decade.
2hats
Dust.
They are conducting studies for a crewed lunar landing mission targeted for the 2030’s. There is already a Chinese space station (Tiangong). They are planning a larger modular version (Tianhe) for launch in 2020.
ska invita
back on the other side
Fuck the Chinese Communist Party and their "space" programme.
Yossarian
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Yep, doesn't sit right reading about the great achievements of somewhere that's put a million Uighurs in gulags - whatever they do in space, this is a country moving backward, not forward.
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hiraethified
At least science is still flourishing.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I didn't know the Chinese had a space station, don't they use twitter?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Science never flourishes under authoritarianism. It can't be permitted to.
The Soviet Union had a good space program, but biological sciences were put back decades by Stalin's and Krushchev's insistence on fields of study which they decided, in their near-total ignorance, were inkeeping with dialectical materialism.
Argonia
Happy go licky
How come they had a good space programme then?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Space travel was ideologically acceptable and useful for propaganda purposes. Also there are military aims and applications involved.
2hats
Dust.
They have had two so far (Mir flavoured).
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
I've had to give myself a 
for thinking the far side of the moon was permanently a dark side. I blame Pink Floyd
for thinking the far side of the moon was permanently a dark side. I blame Pink Floyd
2hats
Dust.
Radio dark. From the point of view of human RF interference.
ska invita
back on the other side
Dark side of the planet. Someone should send a probe.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Pickle would be better.Mustard eh?
Perfect accompaniment for all that cheese.
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