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CHINA TOOK A step forwards in its ambitious space programme this month when it landed its first lunar rover on the moon.
Only the third country to carry out a moon rover mission – after the USA and the former Soviet Union – it comes just a decade after China first sent an astronaut into space.
The country has also professed plans to have a permanent space station in situ by 2020.
China is not the only Asian country with such final frontier ambitions. These key steps in space exploration by the continent all came this year:
January 30: South Korea joins the space club, placing its first satellite in orbit aboard a 140-tonne rocket, the Korea Space Launch Vehicle, KSLV-1. North Korea launched its own satellite on December 12 2012.
June 26: China’s Shenzhou-10 spaceship, with three crew, returns to Earth after a 15-day trip. The craft docked with China’s orbiting space module, Tiangong-1, in tests designed to pave the way to a 60-tonne permanent space station by 2020. China also announces plans to launch a space lab, Tiangong-2, around 2015.
August 3: Japan launches H-2B rocket carrying a small humanoid robot (below) as a companion for crew of the International Space Station.
Image: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi
September 14: Japan launches a new three-stage solid-fuelled rocket, Epsilon, designed for small payloads. Deploys SPRINT-A, an orbital telescope designed for observing Venus, Mars, Jupiter and other planets of our Solar System.
October 23: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says it has tested a gun designed to find out more about the structure of asteroid. The gun, launched from probe Hayabusa-2 in 2018, will fire a metal slug into a space rock called 1999 JU3.
November 5: India launches its first mission to Mars, a low-cost unmanned probe called Mars Orbiter, or Mangalyaan. The gold-coloured probe, the size of a small car, will aim to detect methane, a possible signature of life, in the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
December 2: China launches its first moon rover, Yutu, aboard a Long March-3B rocket.
One small step: China lands spacecraft on the moon>
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Where is the “both milk and water” option?
@DaisyChainsaw: milk is mainly water
@Sandra O’Fucáif: Ever try banana?
@John’s Voyage: I prefer porridge
@Sandra O’Fucáif: See now I put the oats in a pan then add 1 teacup of water and 1 teacup of milk a tsp of honey and a sprinkle of cinnamon. I suppose it takes all kinds to make a world…
@DaisyChainsaw: my first thought too. 50/50
@Sandra O’Fucáif: I put oats in a pot of water the night before then I boil it in the morning.
@DaisyChainsaw: I see by that pic that it has left out sheep droppings too…
Porridge is made using milk and oats. Gruel is made using water and oats. Bad music is made using Hall and Oates
@Finbarr Dowling:
Hall and Oates made good music!
@Finbarr Dowling: blasphemy!
Whoever says it’s nicer with water is lying to you and to themselves!
@Conall Foynes: Oh right and you know everything of course…..buff^^n!
I make with water then add milk and honey. Even broken bits of chocolate added is nice to.
I make it with 3/4 milk and 1/4 water. Its then topped with cinnamon or honey. No room for this reply in the survey, so how valid is the survey?
Porridge reminds me of my days lost in the British prison system.
Milk, u can drink water all the but them bones them bones need calcium
Oats + water = gruel.
We use milk now, it’s so much creamier. In college though, we saved our milk money for beer so porridge was made on water.
Both with raspberries and strawberries…. mmmmm
Ffs
@rse biscuits: give it to us straight.. be honest…as if folks would lie….jesus…
@Dan: Hey man this is serious stuff! Milk or water?!?!? Tell me now!!!!
@Dan: Not the first porridge poll either! http://www.thejournal.ie/lunch-crunch-poll-2-3637031-Oct2017/
@rse biscuits: lol
Sugar or Salt? – Wow this is an important, life changing, poll – but will be interesting to see which granny was right!
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Supergran was right
Milk and a bit of jam mixed in.
@Arthur Pewty: Weetabix-yum yum!
If im feeling a bit posh I push the boat out and use cream…
Milk, only milk, cows milk, you manky water people.
@Mr. H: screw you. We ain’t got the money for milk. Lol
T’was so cold out there this morning I seriously considered using petrol to make it…
I use Almond milk on my gluten free porridge.. I died my hair blue too.
Mixed the night before with Yogurt put in the fridge and add banana, blueberries and raspberries the following morning a bit different but beautiful.
Rich feckers using your fancy milk. Probably use honey too. Pffffffff..
Soak it overnight in buttermilk…top it off with raisins or blueberries, you’d bate bulls out of a bog after it!!!
I use both, favourite meal of the day
Full cream milk…..lovely
Water was only used by the masses in Ireland when no one had a pot to ……. in .
Very nice made with Baileys.
Make it with water but add lashings of Kerrygold.
@Jenny Powell: I’m not alone
Both
coconut milk, honey, fresh walnuts, mandarin segments = power breakfast
Almond milk, cacao and a little bit of honey
If you can add whiskey to home-made marmalade, you can add whiskey to water when making porridge.
Milk,honey,bananas, few nuts
Both , and add butter and sugar #dontjudge
I use Almond Milk on Flahavans Microwave porridge the add Honey Blueberries Raspberries & Strawberries and Rachel’s yogurt and fall bush with Lidl’s Crunchy Linseed
Delicious and keeps you satisfied till lunchtime !!
Full fat milk makes it absolutely delicious.. but you could also use low fat or water..
Some use Alpro, almond milk and some might use apple juice?
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