Obviously, I didn/’t get to see the Bush press conference, but I received the following observations: He didn’t answer a single question (most of which were softballs), he was offered and refused 3 or 4 opportunities to admit that he’d made any mistakes at all over the course of his administration and he refused to …
Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
The highlight of the Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security, so far, has been the tour of The Beijing Museum of Astronautics. I have some great pictures of myself with China’s first ballistic missile (the 1059) and its first nuclear armed ballistic missile (the DF-2/CSS-1). Visitors can actually look inside the missiles – which …
Putin Calls for Space Weapons Ban
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
In a speech on the 43rd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin/’s epochal spaceflight, President Vladimir Putin called for the demilitarization of outer space: “We all know that for many years, space was an area for military and political rivalry. Today, we are doing, and must do, everything to demilitarize space. And by turning it into an …
Chinese kidnapped in Iraq
by | 2004-04-12 | No Comments
Xinhua is reporting that seven Chinese nationals were kidnapped by armed men in Fallujah, after they entered Iraq via Jordan. I just arrived in Beijing for a conference on Technical Aspects of Space Security at Beihang (Beijing Aeronautical and Aerospace University). Update: The seven Chinese were released almost immediately.
