oh, i did no say that they were working closely with
us. i was talking about the commerce dept. allowing a
company that worked on our guiedance systems sell it
to the chineese in breach. it could not be sold
normally, but, bill clinton "persuaded" his commerce
dept to issue a exemption. the defense establishment
says this advanced the chineese icbm program by many
years.
 that was what my remark about our technology was
about.

--- "Elizabeth H. Thiers" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I don't know too much about the rockets that go up.
> Most of them are
> launched from Cape Canaveral Air force station.  The
> big Titans are almost
> as noisy as the shuttles.  You'd have to look at the
> NASA sites and compair.
> I too was under the impression that the Chinese are
> working closer with the
> Russians than with us.  The space shuttle works
> differently than the
> rockets, since it is a reusable craft.  But, it's
> very old technology.
>
> Beth T
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
>
> Subject: Re: more ecconomic news
>
>
> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 3:19 am, you wrote:
> > actually they had no guiedance  technology for
> their
> > rockets until mister clinton decided to
> practically
> > give it to them.
> > this was true of their missels, i'd assume that if
> > they could not guide their missles, that they
> would
> > also not be able to guide a rocket into space. i
> am
> > however not a rocket scientist so i could be
> wrong.
> > our guidence technology was better than that of
> the
> > russians.  they could use the russian technology i
> > guess , but, why would they when they had better?
> >   maybe i am wrong, but, maybe i am right. i have
> been
> > both in the past.
>
> Sorry Ken, couldn't find any info on the Net
> regarding USA involvement in
> the
> guidance systems of the Shenzhou craft. Lots of
> stuff about Russian help
> though.
>
> Aren't the US using the basic "inertial guidance"
> system that Werner
> developed
> 60 years ago (of course the encompassing electronics
> would have changed out
> of recognition). I bet Beth can put us both
> straight. ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri


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