Talk:Shenzhou 8

troll
I just put a little something on Shenzhou 8, because some troll put fake info here.

Docking?
Latest news report Shenzhou 8 will dock with a non-Shenzhou target, not Shenzhou 9.

What else should it be? An asteroid?? I think this sentence is useless. Greetings from --MSSpace 08:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

It was just justified by Zhang Jianqi from CNSA that the 8 ton target vehicle to be docked by other vehicles will not be Shenzhou 8 but Tiangong 1. Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 will dock with Tiangong 1 in turn. Greeneese (talk) 06:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Grammar
First sub-heading should read (corrections in parenthesis):

China's first space laboratory Previous plan(s) for conducting a first space docking experiment with two conventional Shenzhous have been scrapped, replace(ed) by a more ambitious goal. Now, the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft will dock with the new (delete "modified") Shenzhou-8 space laboratory module. Launched in 2010 this spacecraft will be totally different from previous Shenzhous, consisting of an eight ton space laboratory module part of the Project 921-2, with solar panels and two docking ports at the front and rear (delete "sides"). The overall diameter of the space laboratory will be larger than conventional Shenzhous. [2] This essential step will allow China to master key technologies that are prerequisites for building large scale permanent space station(s), performing Moon landing(s) and building future Moon bases.

Work to do
This article appears to be based on some fairly outdated, contradictory speculation about Shenzhou 8. As it is the next Chinese manned mission, we should be looking to improve things.

I'm going to do some research on the matter and would appreciate any help. GrampaScience (talk) 12:30, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Its been over a year, and this article is still fairly short for a mission that is about to launch. I am looking at things I can add.


 * I've not added images before, I don't know what the copyright status of the images such as those in this article are: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/04tiangong/ - and I imagine a response to a copyright request might not be forthcoming. Most national space agencies allow use of their images though, so could we assume that this is the case here? GrampaScience (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Just clarifying, since the original commenter in this section thought Shenzhou 8 was a manned mission. It is not a manned mission.  It is a teleoperated or autonomous robotic mission.  Sources are in the article now.  N2e (talk) 18:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

images
A photo of the launch would be good, as would a diagram of the docking situation. 65.94.77.11 (talk) 10:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Pictures
This article (and many other ones relating to the Chinese space program) lacks good pictures. It is particularly damning in this case, as there exists pictures of the spacecraft in orbit (taken from Tiangong-1)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-11/14/content_14093572.htm

The photo credit in Xinhua. Does anyone know what their policy on use is?

GrampaScience (talk) 14:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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