[Edward]

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A Chinese spaceship blasted off Tuesday from a launch center in the Gobi Desert, carrying three astronauts on what is expected to be the Asian giant's longest crewed mission yet. Propelled by a Long March-2F rocket, the Shenzhou 10 craft is scheduled to dock with the Tiangong-1 space module where the crew will transfer supplies to the space lab, which has been in orbit since September 2011. China has stepped up the pace of its space program since first sending astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003. In 2012, it conducted 18 space launches, according to the Pentagon. Tuesday's launch from the the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center marks the start of China's fifth crewed space mission.

Looks like the space race is starting up again. Apparently they are the tortoise and USA is the hare.

Source: CNN News

[Quasi]

There the go again, will there really be a new space race, what do you think?

[Drago1111]

China has a long way to go to catch up with the US and Russia. They've made great strides due to their investments in Tech mostly in the area of espionage.

[Tofflon]

That's very interesting you have a point

[wolfnotsheep]

Perhaps it's a matter of pride, China being the dark horse in the race to dominate the world as the most powerful nation.

[john2051]

world domination is not easy. at least US is failing it giving others a chance. good.

[Luckyme]

entirely fueled by MSG no doubt

[Iceman65]

Is china going to claim territory rights to space also?

[plopplop]

I knew this ship was chinese made... Bad copy by the way

[GView8]

It would be pretty cool to start up the program again. fingers crossed!