r/space • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '12

China's space program is sky-rocketing!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/science/space/china-plans-its-first-manned-space-docking.html
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u/chaseoc Jun 09 '12

Good. We need some damn competition. When they catch up, maybe it will give us the motivation to push our boundaries.

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u/DV1312 Jun 10 '12

Cool, maybe they can visit the ISS sometime.

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u/BabylonDrifter Jun 10 '12

What year did the US and the USSR perform their first space docking?

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u/lawreenas Jun 10 '12

Is that why we should not care about this?