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...China has yet to declare a plan to put an astronaut on the moon. But that is the ultimate goal of the steps its program has been taking, says Johnson-Freese. On October 15 and 16, 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei completed 14 orbits of the earth in Shenzhou V, making China the third nation after the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. to put a human into space independently. Two years later Shenzhou VI carried two Chinese astronauts into space. This week's Shenzhou VII spacewalk is part of preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry...
...Last fall China launched the unmanned Chang'e lunar probe. The next steps for the lunar program are a soft landing with a moon rover slated for 2012 and launching another rover and returning with samples in 2017. While there have been declarations by some space officials of when China could put a man on the moon - Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China's Chang'e lunar probe, once said 2017; the deputy head of the Shenzhou program said 2020 - there is no official timetable. The U.S., the only nation to land astronauts on the moon, says it hopes...
With a crimson-colored harvest moon rising behind the Eliot Bell Tower Friday night, Harvard football rallied with three fourth quarter touchdowns to trump Holy Cross, 25-24, in front of 20,462 fans at Harvard Stadium. Despite tepid offense to start the Crimson’s second annual night game, the defense kept the squad poised for the fourth quarter comeback. “Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive...
With a crimson-colored, harvest moon rising behind the Eliot Bell Tower Friday night, Harvard football rallied with three fourth-quarter touchdowns to trump Holy Cross, 25-24. Despite tepid offense to start the Crimson’s second annual night game, the defense kept the squad poised for the fourth-quarter comeback.“Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive tackle Matt Curtis. “We read...
...with such a heavy hand that it’s impossible not to feel as if you’re being bludgeoned by a postcolonial hammer. “Like the Englishmen who named streets in Kerala after their wives, like the Americans who shoved their flag in the moon. It was a warning from Allah,” Smith writes in “White Teeth.” The imperial imagery is nice, but it’d also be nice to discover the parallels myself instead of having them shoved down my proverbial throat.This leads...