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China To Transmit Pop Music From Lunar-Probing Satellite
Beijing, China (AFP) Jul 10, 2006 China will transmit 30 pieces of Chinese music to Earth next year aboard its first lunar-probing satellite, state media said. The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which is in charge of the lunar project, is seeking recommendations from the public on which tunes to play, Xinhua news agency reported. The public will be able to choose from a list of 150 songs put forward by the commission, including music from the country's 56 ethnic groups, pop songs from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as opera soundtracks. Unlike the single transmission of the popular patriotic hymn "The East is Red" in 1970 from the country's first man-made terrestrial satellite, the music from space next year will be "very different," Xinhua said without elaborating. The hymn "The East is Red" was selected by satellite experts and space officials to pay tribute to Mao Zedong, then leader of the newly founded People's Republic of China, who enjoyed cult worship during that period. The final selection will be made public in October, said the commission. The satellite, budgeted about 1.4 billion yuan ($170 million), is part of the country's three-phase lunar project. It is designed to obtain three-dimensional images of the moon's surface, analyze the content of useful elements and materials, and probe the depth of the lunar soil and the space environment between Earth and the Moon. The satellite will weigh 2,350 kilograms (5,170 pounds), with 130 kilograms (286 pounds) of extra equipment, and it will orbit the Moon for one year. In addition to next year's project, China has already announced it hopes to have a spacecraft land on the Moon by 2012, and by 2017, it aims to land an unmanned lunar probe on the moon, have it collect samples and return them to Earth.
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China Seeks Space Station Access
Beijing (UPI) Jun 30, 2006China has allowed reporters inside its space launch control room at Aerospace City near Beijing as part of an effort to join in the world's space projects. The rare visit by foreign reporters occurred as China seeks access to the International Space Station, as well to assuage fears its space program is driven by military needs, The Independent reported Thursday. |
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