I see that it’s making headlines, but all newsagencies are reporting that China has started its manned spaceflight project. Right now at this very moment. There’s hardly any news coming through, since the official Chinese news agency appears to be tightlipped about the whole event.
So 42 years after the Russians sent a man into space, the Chinese have managed to do the same. And for some kind of reason, I keep thinking about those thousands of games of Civilization I played. The space race? Who’s the first to launch a ship to Alpha Centauri?