Space and Defense
Abstract
You can’t believe everything you hear about the Chinese space program. I worked in Beijing in the late 1990s, and there I encountered a man named Mr. Li. Mr. Li spoke good English, appeared well educated, and claimed to have been in the Chinese Air Force. He would sometimes talk with me about the Chinese space program, particularly about the Chinese space launch facility in Tibet where they were preparing for a mission to the Moon some time before the end of 1999. The purpose of the mission, he said, was to crack open the Moon to allow the Earth to pass through it and enter the next century. The story pretty much went downhill from there. Eventually I had to break off my relationship with Mr. Li, explaining that his version of reality and mine were too far apart.
DOI
10.32873/uno.dc.sd.01.01.1237
Recommended Citation
Wolf, John D.
(2006)
"CHINA AND ASIA SPACE POLICY UPDATE,"
Space and Defense: Vol. 1:
No.
0, Article 10.
DOI: 10.32873/uno.dc.sd.01.01.1237
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https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/spaceanddefense/vol1/iss0/10
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