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Originally Posted by Greg
Eeek! I was unaware that Russia was thinking Cold War thoughts again.
I was also unaware that the Chinese were launching a moon probe today!
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Yes, the Russians have reactivated their bomber fleets and long distance Atlantic patrol flights. One of their pilots recently made the comment "I don't think the RAF should really complain, at least now they have something to actually do!"
The Chinese were throwing the phrase space-exploration around a lot today. They successfully delivered Chang'e 1 to orbit top of a Long March 3A launcher
. It seems to have been a text book launch, they were all very excited. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...ge_launch.html
I managed to catch the launch and orbital deployment live on TV this morning, purely by accident.