China completes Human Spaceflight

[Buraku]

[Buraku]

they are back in Space

China is planning to study the effects of space on sperm, by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit.

The pigs chosen are a breed called Rongchang, named after an area in the southwest of the country and famed for their physique and for the quality of their meat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4690651.stm
http://www.kget.com/entertainment/wierd_news/story.aspx?content_id=E963D79B-90CA-490A-B78A-DFD4C90F3987


Some 40 grams of pig sperm will be taken on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft
China became the third nation to send a human into space, after the United States and Russia, two years ago.

[Big Booger]

Who milked the 40 grams of sperm? Did they jack off the pig or something?

[Buraku]

Plans for a mutant Pig



The spermatozoa will be returned to Earth and used in breeding experiments, through in-vitro fertilisation. Biologists will search for any genetic changes in the resultant "space pigs" that could be caused by exposure to cosmic rays.

Genetic mutations experienced by these mammals could, in theory, be extrapolated to potential mutations in human astronauts.

http://www.physorg.com/news7022.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101100188.html

[Buraku]

China has outlined plans to land a man on the Moon by 2020, the country's chief space official said in comments broadcast on state television

NASA leaders will get peek at China's secretive space program during visit there next week


http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/09/23/science/15_40_379_22_06.txt

U.S. space officials will get a peek behind the closely guarded doors of China's space program next week during a visit that many experts believe is more about diplomacy than cooperation in technology.

President Bush asked NASA Administrator Michael Griffin to go to China last spring, following a visit from Chinese President Hu Jintao. During the four-day trip that starts Sunday, a delegation led by Griffin will meet with the head of the Chinese Aerospace Bureau and visit the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing before traveling to China's launch facility in the Gobi Desert.

[Buraku]

China Manned Mission to Follow Olympics
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China will launch its third manned space mission after next year's Beijing Olympics, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Shenzhou 7 launch is on track for October 2008, the China Daily newspaper said on its Web site, citing Pang Zhihao, a researcher with the China Academy of Space Technology.

The trip is to carry three astronauts and will feature China's first space walk.

Also Tuesday, official media reported that China's first moon probe, called Chang'e 1 after a mythical Chinese moon goddess, had positioned its directional antenna toward Earth to allow data to be transmitted home later this month.

State broadcaster CCTV and the official Xinhua News Agency said the probe had orbited the moon 158 times by mid-Tuesday at an altitude of 124 miles above the lunar surface. Launched in late October, the probe is due to have surveyed the entire surface of the moon at least once by early next year.

China has denied any link between the manned mission and its staging of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics, although both events are a source of huge national pride.

[Greji]

Who milked the 40 grams of sperm? Did they jack off the pig or something?

Hey BB, leave me out of this, I had nothing to do with it. I swore off pigs for goats over a year ago, okay?

But, then again, that's an interesting question!

[emperor]

NASA LAUNCH SABOTAGED!!
JACK BAUER IN PURSUIT OF ROGUE CHINESE GENETICISTS!!

[Buraku]

After Olympics, China eyes space conquest

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