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By: Daniel Nardini
Frankly I am impressed. At a time when it seems that only the Russians are really in space (hell, American astronauts have to hitch a ride on Russian space rockets because the U.S. discontinued developing its own rockets in favor of the space shuttle), the Chinese have not only roared into space, but it seems that China is in the lead of space exploration. With the European Union running into trouble, and the United States heavily in debt, the Chinese space program is going on strong. It was only recently that the taikonauts on China’s Shenzhou 7 had successfully completed its first space walk, and that China had sent unmanned probes to explore the Moon. China’s National Space Agency (CNSA) is working to not only build and complete a space station by 2020 (at about the time when the International Space Station is set to be retired), but that over the next five to seven years the CNSA will begin missions for deep space exploration focusing on the Moon and Mars.
At present, it seems that only Russia (not including China) is the only other country that has space personnel going up and down. Sadly, Russia does not have enough money to increase its space program’s expansion. A lot of Russia’s space equipment is growing obsolete, and the money coming from other countries (including the United States) to have Russia carry space personnel from other countries along with its own space personnel is one of the things keeping Russia’s space program going. Until America’s space program (or anyone else’s, for that matter) gets going again, the space program to watch is China’s.