NASA Chief, on First China Trip, Says Joint Spaceflight Is Unlikely
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NASAÂs administrator said joint human spaceflights will have to wait until there is more trust and openness between the U.S. and China.
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By STEPHANIE HOO     JIUQUAN, China  -- Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.    A police car with flashing lights led busloads of international journalists across northwestern China's vast Gobi Desert to the Jiuquan space center, past armored patrol vehicles and a sign, in English: "Foreigners are not allowed to enter without permission."    It was the first time China let foreigners enter, though officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October...
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China's second manned space mission will take place in September 2005, state media Thursday quoted a high ranking space official as saying.
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NASA&#39;s plan to send a robot into space to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is unlikely to succeed, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.
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BEIJING: China can expect to see the first commercial space flights in 20 years, the head of the country&#39;s space program was quoted as saying by state media.
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The first ever 'strategic economic dialog' Â between China and the United States isnât likely to stem the bootlegging.
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SPACE.com / WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Mike Griffin ruled out Chinese participation in the assembly of the International Space Station, adding that any U.S.-Chinese collaboration on human space flight projects would have to happen "well down the road." But Griffin also raised the possibility of nearer-term cooperation with China on Earth science and other unmanned space endeavors.
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NASA is planning to begin a mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, but a last-minute dispute is raising fundamental questions about the risks.
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Urgent: NASA rules out Thursday launch of Atlantis    NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) - NASA managers ruled out a launch attempt on Thursday,  but said Friday still was a possibility, AP reported Wednesday.
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ZHUHAI, China : China&#39;s second manned space flight will orbit the Earth for five days with two astronauts onboard in a mission scheduled for next year.
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China gave a rare glimpse Wednesday of astronauts preparing for its second manned space mission, with state television showing trainees in simulated zero gravity doing somersaults and holding up the national flag.
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NASA's safety chief said today that he could find no evidence of heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not wholly dismissing reports from an independent panel on astronaut health issues that said last month that at least two such incidents that had come to its...
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China is set to launch its second manned space flight, which will carry two astronauts into a five-day orbit around the Earth in 2005.
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Contradicting NASA policy in a long and bitter debate over science and safety, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that the
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China&#39;s second manned space flight will carry two astronauts into space and will orbit the Earth for five days. The country&#39;s space authorities made the announcement about the mission, which is scheduled for
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NASA chief Michael Griffin met with top Chinese space officials here and toured facilities during the first visit to China by a US space agency head.
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Space cooperation between China and the US may finally be getting off the ground a year after China put a man in orbit, with the two countries holding their first talks and planning a series of exchanges.