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Title: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: Phillip Clark on 08/07/2015 08:38 pm

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319194721?utm_campaign=CON26245_2&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=email&wt_mc=email.newsletter.8.CON26245.internal_2

"When China Goes To The Moon" by Marco Aliberti

Has anyone seen this book yet?   I would be interested in peoples' thoughts before getting a copy!

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: beidou on 08/07/2015 09:29 pm

I already have a digital copy but haven't started reading it.

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: Steven Pietrobon on 08/08/2015 07:15 am

Wow! Someone has written a whole book on a mission that has only been studied in a few papers. Seems the author is pretty positive the Chinese will be going.

You can read the first two pages for free, but they don't say very much.

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: plutogno on 08/08/2015 08:20 am

I know the guy: he contacted me a couple of years ago on the topic: he was an intern at the European Space Policy Institute and he was working on a report on Chinese exploration programs, which was to be out end-2013.
now that I think of it, he promised me a copy of the report...

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: heinkel174 on 08/08/2015 10:34 am

Took a quick glance. Disappointed.

It’s heavy on politics while very light on engineering and technology. The actual manned mission architecture is explained in like, three pages? The rest is politics, Shenzhou, Chang’e, sino-Europe Corporation, etc, etc. Overall pretty unimpressive.

Give it a try if you have access to Springer. Otherwise I reckon save your money.

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: D_Dom on 08/10/2015 02:56 pm

Seems to me the politics will be significant, maybe the most significant factor. Will the Chinese economy support this effort, how will their leadership decide to spend the available money, will the money spent provide a positive outcome? All political aspects to my way of thinking.

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: Blackstar on 08/12/2015 04:00 am

Look at the price and look at the page count. That's a lot of money for an eBook or a hardcover. For that kind of money I'd expect a much larger book!

Title: Re: "When China Goes to the Moon"
Post by: fregate on 08/16/2015 05:12 am

I got ebook - pls contact me via personal message