Satori - 24/9/2006 6:16 PMThis visit is very interesting. Can we expect any kind of agreement between the US and China in terms of manned spaceflight (a chinese crew member on a shuttle flight? a Shenzhou / ISS docking usiang a russian docking mechanism?).Maybe we can also expect a chinese launch this days to show the reliability of the chinese launchers to the western administrator?
MKremer - 24/9/2006 5:34 PMWhile this visit may develop into some further, lower level dialog and *maybe* a bit of information-sharing agreements later on, it's way, way too early to predict anything to do with Chinese astronauts visiting the ISS.
Danderman - 25/9/2006 9:42 AMQuoteMKremer - 24/9/2006 5:34 PMWhile this visit may develop into some further, lower level dialog and *maybe* a bit of information-sharing agreements later on, it's way, way too early to predict anything to do with Chinese astronauts visiting the ISS.I would imagine that by 2010, with the retirement of the Shuttle, that US astronauts would travel to ISS via Shenzhou, until CEV ever flies.