By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 4, 2009
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“China appears to be positioning itself for two space station programs, one similar to the U.S. Skylab program of the 1970s that made use of spacecraft built for the Apollo moon program, and another more along the lines of Russia’s Mir series that were larger and included several models.” (blog.discovery.com).Tiangong is creating unease with the DoD, U.S. Department of Defense.
(“Still), the Chinese space program is a considerable concern to the DoD,” says Charles Vick, a senior technical analyst with GlobalSecurity.org. “What are their intentions? What are their purposes?”The United States considered a manned military space program, but dismissed the concept in favor of flying reconnaissance and other sensors on satellites. In the race to conquer space, China has just pulled ahead of the game. China will be putting its station into orbit just as the United States retires its shuttle fleet and enters a five-year gap in its ability to launch people into orbit. The shuttles replacement won’t be ready to fly until 2015. So far the silence is deafening from the Anti-America in Space camp. “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the (space) aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning,” Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister told the media in November 2005. Hellyer portrayed President George W. Bush as a cowboy taking potshots at space aliens: The Bush administration, he said, has “finally agreed to build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them if they so decide.” Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Hellyer rose to Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Hellyer has ties to the Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), whose international director undertook a 1977 Extraterrestrial Communication Study for the White House when Jimmy Carter was president. Meanwhile, the Peoples Republic of China now not only owns the lion’s share of the earth we walk, but is well on its way to own the space over our heads.
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