Chinese Astronauts Launch, Dock with Space Station
Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the nation’s first permanent space station on Sunday, beginning a busy six-month mission during which initial assembly of the orbital facility will be completed.
Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang, and Cai Xuzhe lifted off aboard the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft at 10:44 a.m. local time (10:44 p.m. EDT on Saturday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Long March-2F rocket placed the crew transport into orbit, where they automatically docked with the Tiangong station seven hours after liftoff.
The crew will be on board when the Wentian and Mengtian science modules are launched later this year. The flights will complete the initial assembly of the t-shaped station. The Shenzhou-15 crew will then launch, expanding the station contingent to 6 astronauts, Chinese officials said.
This launch is the 423rd launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles.
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Congratulations on their successful flight.
You do not need to hate those who you are in competition with, nor do you need to ignore honoring their successes. Indeed, that is what good sportsmanship is all about. Sadly most folks seem to have forgotten that simple lesson from school.
Hate is Gary’s raison d’être, so you’re just wasting bandwidth.
Oh, FFS. I’ve banned you from here before. Can you please just go away.
Eh, I add them to my block list when they reappear. They’re kind of like persistent mold.
Hate is Gary’s raison d’être, so you’re just wasting bandwidth.
I don’t understand you Doug…I am just fighting back against a couple dozen thugs that endlessly harass me. I have read your comments, we are not that different in our views. Yet you will do nothing to keep the spacex fan boys in check. Nothing. Just tell those they troll, “FFS….
I have tried to block them several times and they just troll me anyway. You did nothing about that. I took that to mean return to them what they were giving me because the “moderator” did not care. FFS.
Sad.
Disagreement != harassment. You are the ultimate hyper-aggressive snowflake. If you find “harassment” so disagreeable, just post stuff on your own website – where no one is likely to “harass” you because no one will go there to read anything – and spare yourself the aggravation of inevitable disagreement if you keep coming around and posting on actual forums. See how that works?
In his world, not agreeing is harassment, not even reaching the level of disagreement.
I have a suspicion of the identity of the author of the various Gary/Bilgamesh/SLSfanboy comments, though it would be libelous to post an actual name without solid proof.
Do you mean ‘Gary Church’ is an alias too? This guy must be a human matryoshka doll.
I strongly suspect that Gary Church was an early screen name (sockpuppet) from one that was a blogger on a major site at one time. The rants, bragging, narrow-mindedness, and meltdown from a decade or so back are a rough match. One of my posts on another site may have contributed to his losing that gig. I am speculating though, and don’t consider it worth my time to try to prove it.
Though I do not respect or like the individual I suspect, I will not accuse by name as that would be slanderous.