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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com