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Awesome. It won't be too long before they put a man, or woman, there.

Soon they'll be collecting moon locks and then sending manned lockets to the Moon and Mas.

I joke but good on them. I hope they become the new leaders in manned space exploration because at least we know they will keep going instead of stagnating.

what? no one whingeing about how the moon belongs to Murica?

Morrolan wrote:what? no one whingeing about how the moon belongs to Murica?

That's "'Murrica"...learn to spell, oh thee of foreign registration...

Morrolan wrote:what? no one whingeing about how the moon belongs to Murica?

Mullica alleady belongs to China. hehehe

All youll base alle belong to us?

cid wrote:

Morrolan wrote:what? no one whingeing about how the moon belongs to Murica?

That's "'Murrica"...learn to spell, oh thee of foreign registration...

Looks like the damned thing has a major malfunction.

China Moon rover Jade Rabbit in trouble
They don't think rover will last the lunar night.

Yet, all in all, it's one hell of a first step.

Sigma_Orionis wrote:Looks like the damned thing has a major malfunction.

China Moon rover Jade Rabbit in trouble
They don't think rover will last the lunar night.

Yet, all in all, it's one hell of a first step.

Neil Armstrong never broke down, though...

Neil Armstrong is Neil Armstrong, not Jade Rabbit

Russia's Lunokhod Rovers lasted longer though.

It's a pretty hard design challenge to make a rover last a long time.
Things being the way they are sometimes you just get a part that fails and there is no way to predict that.
I'd imagine all their stuff is radiation hardened and goes through a long burn in cycle to put it in the low fail part of the bath tub curve and even then sometimes its just plain bad luck.
I think I'd enjoy designing stuff for space missions.
Lots of challenges, no need to work with a stupid budget, just technical challenges including minimising weight.