China Launches Shenzou 6

China has launched its second manned-rocket into space, the first with multicrew. It was almost two years ago that it launched its first astronaut into space. Cool.

It took the Soviets slightly more than 3 years after launching Yuri Gagarin into space before they launched their first multi-member crew mission. The US took 4 years after Alan Shepard’s solo space mission before getting a multi-member crew up into space.

Looks like the Chinese are doing a fast-forward version of the Cold War Space Race.

I hope someone would launch a probe to see if the moon landings really took place.