From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 11:33:03 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lorrey
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 10:35 AM
>
> The only thing that concerns me about Chinese manned
> launchers is that there seems to be a distinct lack of regard
> for individual human life by chinese authorities. I suspect
> that the safety record of the Chinese manned program will be dismal.
Mike, I can't think why you'd say this. So far, the Chinese manned
program has proceeded on an EXTREMELY conservative basis. From what
I've read, the third Shenzhou flight could have been manned, but they're
waiting until Shenzhou 5. The LM (CZ) rocket has a record as good as
Atlas did when it was the Mercury booster.
Since at this point the Chinese manned space program is all about
national pride and international prestige, it seems to me that CNSA has
as much incentive to be safe as NASA does.
Greg Burch
Vice-president, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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