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IDonT

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The next assembly flight to the ISS is scheduled to fly this friday June 8th. Is there a reason why China is not yet invited to join in this project?

It should not be that hard to refit the Shengzou spacecraft with the docking port.

Russia is sending the first Malaysian Cosmonaut on Soyuz Taxi flight TMA 11 in October.
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Next year, the first South Korean Cosmonaut will fly on TMA 12.
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Note these two people are actual Cosmonauts not space tourist.
 
AssassinsMace

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It's because of the fear of the Chinese "ability" to duplicate technology just by looking at it. BTW, that's not a joke! I read that in an article unless I mistook that it was actually thought the Chinese would take apart systems on the ISS and take pictures and notes and maybe steal components to learn how everything worked while everyone watched and did nothing.

It all political. But it's interesting how NASA has been talking about establishing an agreement with China that if there's some sort of emergency in space, they want to have open Chinese spacecraft ready to be used in such a case.

China should just build there own space station and if the Russians want to be partners or offer to help with their know-how, then that's the way China should go. The US had to learn a thing or two from them about long endurance missions.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
It's because of the fear of the Chinese "ability" to duplicate technology just by looking at it. BTW, that's not a joke! I read that in an article unless I mistook that it was actually thought the Chinese would take apart systems on the ISS and take pictures and notes and maybe steal components to learn how everything worked while everyone watched and did nothing.

It all political. But it's interesting how NASA has been talking about establishing an agreement with China that if there's some sort of emergency in space, they want to have open Chinese spacecraft ready to be used in such a case.

China should just build there own space station and if the Russians want to be partners or offer to help with their know-how, then that's the way China should go. The US had to learn a thing or two from them about long endurance missions.
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Only that US jurisdiction ends at the Unity module. The Russian's can send whom ever they want and do regardless of US "reservations", such as the 5 tourist. This station is as much as Russian as it is NASA.
 
AssassinsMace

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IDonT said:
Only that US jurisdiction ends at the Unity module. The Russian's can send whom ever they want and do regardless of US "reservations", such as the 5 tourist. This station is as much as Russian as it is NASA.
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I don't think China has ever asked the Russians for a ride to the space station so that has probably never been discussed and all the people who have paid for the Russians to get them to the station probably aren't considered a threat even though at the beginning the US didn't like it. And I don't know if the US still demands these people don't go into certain sections like they did with the first one. Plus I know many of the European partners have said they want China to participate to absorb some of the costs but the US has ended any discussion of the sort. So the US does seem to have a final say in some manner.
 
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