Manned Chinese space station expected within 15 years

AFP , BEIJING
Wednesday, May 19, 2004,Page 5

China will launch its own permanent manned space station within 15 years, but does not plan to send a man to the moon, the chief designer of the country's space program was cited as saying yesterday.

Wang Yongzhi (???) also revealed that China's manned space program has guzzled 18 billion yuan (US$2.18 billion) over the past 11 years.

Under the program, China will construct a permanent manned space station, expected to take 15 years, the Beijing News reported him as telling some 100 high school students from Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau.

But due to financial reasons, China's lunar probe will not send an astronaut to the moon, Wang said.

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Do Whores like Limbaugh, Fiineman, Russert, Woodward... actually believe by bankrupting America in Iraq and leaving us with no money and in debt and unable to finance large scale technology projects is in some Satanic sense making our country more secure?

tang? that styrocream sandwich stuff?