China's next space mission to carry 3 astronauts

While we sit on our rears watching Jersey Shore, Kardashians, American Idol etc and arguing about abortion and gay marriage China plods ahead with their space program. 50 years ago they couldn't even build a car. Now we can't even send our own astronauts to the space station, we have to hitch a ride from the Russians. Yeah, let's keep giving out financial aid to the middle east and let's start a war in Iran. What's a few trillion more? I am sure the Chinese will loan us the money. I weep for the future of our country!

China's next space mission to carry 3 astronauts....

The Chinese refer to their "astronauts" as taikonaut, which is the hybridization of the Chinese term taikong (space) and the Greek naut (sailor)

The Russians use "cosmonaut" which derives from the Greek words kosmos (κόσμος), meaning "universe", and nautes (ναύτης), meaning "sailor"

We use "astronaut" which derives from the Greek words ástron (ἄστρον), meaning "star", and nautes (ναύτης), meaning "sailor".

I'll bet the next manned landing on the Moon will be the Chinese.

This what we got when we tried to impede their progress!

Kudos to China and Russia for being able to put people in space. Too bad the U.S. can't put people in space anymore.

With this I will say "SCREW BOTH AMERICAN PARTIES". This crap started with NAFTA and CAFTA. And BOTH parties and the Council On Foreign Retards MADE it happen. Obama, GWB, Dole, Gore FYITA!

Good. competition in space should bring prices down. now the USA CAN BEG RIDES OFF THE Chinese as well as the Russians.

Finally the United States has another superpower to compete with.
Their not going to squander their wealth on wars like we have.
The competition will be good medicine in efficiency for the U.S.

It must be awe inspiring to live in country with a manned space program

Can anyone from China please tell us Americans what its like?

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft sponsored by Wal-Mart.

Our leaders have more important things to concern themselves with than space exploration.
Celebrating diversity, gay marriage, the banking system, checking out your privates at the airport, cutting corporate taxes, keeping us at each others throats, useless wars, oil profits,
to name a few.

Good for China and everyone else for keeping the space exploration alive for the next generation.

Good for them! Sounds like a better way of spending money than blowing it on wars that turned out to be for made-up reasons.

This is about scientific exploration. If some commentators (as ever, the "usual sources" apply) need to try and turn this into their own personal racist, political forum, feel free. If those same "usual sources" need to make the "usual remarks" in trying to denigrate the quality of China's efforts...well, that certainly isn't news. They've done it at every turn, and despite being consistently wrong, they never change their tune, nor learn from their mistakes.

However, the most important issue here is that the Chinese are making these efforts, and if we do not think of this as a big deal, they do. They carry these stories on their own news programs. They celebrate their astronauts AND the engineers that made these missions possible. They are raising a generation of educated children who will loook at these examples as something to emulate. We used to do similar, and instead of denigrating the efforts of others, I have to wonder why we no longer engage ourselves in this manner.

Instead of moving forward, "evolution" is now "open to debate", and while 90% of our college students know who "Snookie" is, and what the "Kardashians" are up to, less than 5% know anything of Richard Feynman, or his work.

So in the end, all those "bashers" can sit back and be smug. They can park their brains on their couches and say "Been there. Done that." in vain attempts to feel a sense of accomplishment via some vague association with times past. That won't change the fact that SOME are willing to explore, while others simply sit back and pretend that they're "so far ahead". These detractors, are both cause and symptom of the dissipation of knowledge and the will to acquire it.

Good going, thus far, China. Don't rest on your laurels. Don't forget that every answer brings a thousand new questions, and whether future steps are large or small, I wish you every success on this journey to awakening.

If some of these hater comments is any indication of who we are, then we are freaking doomed. Some people should have taken China's progress as a wake up call to do a better job and work harder. Instead, we got a bunch of guys who take it as a wake up call to get on their computers and write nasty notes. Congrats to the haters who complain about other people catching up. You are the real reason we don't keep going.

Financed by corporate America....and American consumers who buy "made in china".

The jewnited states are now working to explore the center of the earth with an earth-piercing nuclear warhead. They are digging their own grave.

I claim the moon in the name of CHINA!!

great..... now space will be littered with chinese space junk........

That is why China is advancing and US is going south. Keep laughing, they keep doing their own thing, Chinese has a lot of patience. Remember only three countries in the world has this ability. They start sending men in space, soon they start sending men to Mars.