Re: RUSSIA, AMERICA AND CHINA: AN INEVITABLE TRIANGLE OF SPACE

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:57:44 GMT

Eric Chomko wrote:
>
> Joann Evans (bondage@frontiernet.net) wrote:
> : Eric Chomko wrote:
> : >
> : > Alan Erskine (alanerskine1@bigpond.com) wrote:
> : > : "Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
> : > : news:uYfHd.29836$Ta2.16351@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> : > : > RUSSIA, AMERICA AND CHINA: AN INEVITABLE TRIANGLE OF SPACE COOPERATION
> : > : >
> : > : >
> : > : http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5320502&startrow=11&date=
> : > : > 2005-01-18&do_alert=0
> : >
> : > : >the role of the third space power, China, remained unclear until recently.
> : >
> : > : "..the third space power"? What about Europe?
> : >
> : > I think that until ESA lanches their own astronaut, China will be third.
>
> : What will we call it when a privately developed launcher puts someone
> : in orbit? Espically if it happens not to be a US company?
>
> A private mission from corporation X. Do you have some issue about whether
> you drive a GM car or a Honda?
>
> Also, how about a shot in the arm for free enterprise regardless of
> country? The New World Order types don't mind the whole "One World" aspect
> just as long as it is all good for business, lines their pockets and that
> they control the governmental aspects.
>
> Eric

   Fine with me.

   My real point was that the mattter of what country puts a human in
orbit in what chronological order will ultimately become meaningless
when non-national entities gain the ability, or when country X does it
with a vehicle purcheased from company Y in nation Z, possibly actually
launched from yet another location.

   Post-Concorde, it's probably impossible to count the individual
people, or from what country, who've flown faster than Mach 2, for
example, even if we can point to the country and specific test pilot who
did it first... 

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