[FPSPACE] Long March 5 to launch in 2013

[Keith Gottschalk]

>>>> Paolo Ulivi <paolo.ulivi at tiscali.it> 11/20/07 9:50 PM >>>
>The slow pace of the Chinese space program is always amazing!

 Well, since Feng Jishen invented the rocket in 970 AD, it seems to
have picked up a little!

    Better slow but steady rather than any more Apollo boom-&-busts. If
NASA had continued to send even merely one Saturn 5 per two years to the
Moon after 1972, we would never have seen the loony Apollo denialist
conspiracy theory website. Those kids were not yet out of high school
when the last crew of three returned.  ISRO has a similar
decade-by-decade plan. 

   So by 2013 LM5 brings a Chinese equivalent to Proton, or the
heaviest-lift variants yet proposed for Ariane 5, Atlas 5, & Delta 4. No
one is yet going back to a Saturn 5 class launcher, unless Ares gets all
its budget.

- Keith
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