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The Heavenly Palace is the first step to China having their own space station. [youtube]arCsVh-NePM[/youtube] Have to love it, the Chinese government uses “America the Beautiful” music to the animation for the Cong space lab. Like their strange videos using Top Gun footage to show military planes in a drill, this one is more like a gaf. It’s nice sounding music that’s regal and dramatic, but American music to go with their precious launch? Someone music supervisor will be at a gulag soon. (Guardian – China Space Station uses American the Beautiful)
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In the time of glabal expansion and riches, the one thing that strokes a nations ego more than anything else? Getting into space. The US and Russia pushed each other to reach the stars by putting animals, then a human, and then a man on the moon. Then Mars, then photos from far beyond. Yet in the end, all of this research costs. As NASA winds itself down and yields to the billionaires who are monetizing space, China is now entering the race as a distant third place. The Tiangong 1, or Heavenly Palace will be their space station. It’s unmanned, but yet another space step for them.
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