China and Russia to Launch Joint Mars Mission 182
The Interfacer writes "China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars that will bring back samples to earth and land on one of the red planet's tiny moons, state media quoted a Chinese scientist as saying Wednesday." From the article: "Russia will launch the spacecraft, while China will provide the survey equipment to carry out the unmanned exploration, Ye Peijian, a senior scientist at the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, told a meeting in Beijing, according to the official Xinhua news agency."
Oh dear. (Score:5, Funny)
China and Russia.. (Score:1, Funny)
Demand re-unification with renagade planet (Score:1, Funny)
Chinese should land on Mars. This way, hundred of years later, they can claim that Mars is "historically" Chinese terriroty, and setup intergalatic missles aiming at Mars to demand re-unification with the renagade RED planet.
Re:US mothballed half its space missions (Score:5, Funny)
Me too! (Score:4, Funny)
I'm planning a mission to Mars to be launched from my backyard in 2012.
*Anyone* can *plan* a mission.
Re:I'm so tired of you liberals (Score:3, Funny)
Well, at least they'll have somewhere to stay (Score:4, Funny)
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