China's Space Program News Thread
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Shenzhou-12 will launch tomorrow at 9:22AM Beijing Time
They got some old hands for this mission:
Nie Haisheng - Flight Engineer for Shenzhou-6, Commander of Shenzhou-10 and went aboard Tiangong-1. He will be the Commander of Shenzhou-12
Liu Boming - Orbital module astronaut for Shenzhou-7, performed EVA during this mission along with the commander. He will be mission specialist
Tang Hongbo - first spaceflight, he will be mission specialist
They got some old hands for this mission:
Nie Haisheng - Flight Engineer for Shenzhou-6, Commander of Shenzhou-10 and went aboard Tiangong-1. He will be the Commander of Shenzhou-12
Liu Boming - Orbital module astronaut for Shenzhou-7, performed EVA during this mission along with the commander. He will be mission specialist
Tang Hongbo - first spaceflight, he will be mission specialist
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Best wishes for a successful launch. I was invited to witness the Chinese Taikonauts that visited Macau in 2014, after their successful launch into space. I was then a visiting lecturer at the University of Macau. The Chinese Taikonauts were impressive and so were the team of scientists (including several young ladies) who helped in the launch.
Some general observation about space stuff, no matter what country or space agency... Why its never sold some piece of area of louncher rockets to comercial purpose, to put some comertial, logo of some big company onto surface area of rocket? There are so much space on it, it could be big comertial business, especially for high end missions. Such missions launchings whole world watching either live, or on the news, videos, photos...
Also, why nobody sell rights to companies to show their flag, logo on Mars, Moon, space, space station??? That would be huge business, huge opportunity for further comercialisation of space, also huge earnings for space agencies. That money could cover good portion of missions expences, and allow them to execute more missions, more ambitious, more often...
How could be that even Americans, masters of comertial stuff, never did that?? It cost nothing, and could bring billions of green papers...
Also, why nobody sell rights to companies to show their flag, logo on Mars, Moon, space, space station??? That would be huge business, huge opportunity for further comercialisation of space, also huge earnings for space agencies. That money could cover good portion of missions expences, and allow them to execute more missions, more ambitious, more often...
How could be that even Americans, masters of comertial stuff, never did that?? It cost nothing, and could bring billions of green papers...
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