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Perfection and dangerous indifference are twins in dictatorships, and China is demonstrating that in space travel this week.
The landing of his Mars robot, precisely deposited by the mother probe on the Red Planet, is a masterpiece.
So far, only America has achieved this.
At the same time, China launched the first sub-module of its space station, the launch vehicle of which is one of the world's most powerful, both also an impressive feat of engineering - if it weren't for the fact that the twenty-tonne third stage of this rocket does not seem to have a device for a controlled crash. On the first flight, debris landed on May 12th last year in a village on the Ivory Coast, on the second flight such pieces fell into the sea near the Maldives.
In the sea, what do you want, Beijing's propaganda counters Western accusations that China is carelessly endangering human lives with its technology.
Into the sea, yes - just under 40 kilometers from the Ryu Holiday Atoll, which is offered in German travel catalogs, and just under 50 kilometers from the Niyama Resort, also bookable in Germany.
China is planning at least ten more flights by the end of next year.
First flight on Mars - helicopter photographs its own shadow
Even if it was just a small flight, it's a big leap for space exploration.
The NASA helicopter “Ingenuity” has successfully floated over Mars.
An unprecedented scientific achievement.
Source: WORLD
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Perhaps Xi Jinping, who celebrated the first flight of the rocket, will then see to it that he doesn’t stand in front of the world like Wernher von Braun in the bitterly evil song by US cabaret artist Tom Lehrer about Braun's V-2 rockets. In free re-enactment: "Where they land / should others look then, that's nothing to do with me / says Wernher von Braun". Debris on villages, on holiday resorts, possibly on Western Australia's metropolis Perth, all of which are in the trajectory? It is criminal to accept that.