Cosmic Penguin

So I have been thinking about this question as someone who was in touch w/ the Chinese HSF program for a decade+, given it has been a big PRC promotion tool here. My opinion: the PRC's simply bad in covering their HSF program, especially in recent years.https://twitter.com/CasTweetsThings/status/1388672206217957378 …

More on that later, but this is also a reminder that when the 1st CSS crew flies it'll be: * almost 5 years since their last crew * 9 years since their 1st "space lab" crew * 12+ years since their last EVA * almost 18 years since their 1st people in spacehttps://twitter.com/KenKirtland17/status/1388546660658188291 …

Also after checking records elsewhere & my memory, I can confirm that their HSF program coverage just isn't that much even in Soviet terms: * Shenzhou 5 (2003) - text coverage only (which is OK, that flight had some close calls after all)

* Shenzhou 6 (2005) - almost zero insight in what the crew did in orbit, till this day * Shenzhou 7 (2008) - good coverage of the 20 min EVA, which is roughly what the crew did * Shenzhou 9 (2012) - good coverage along w/ the robotic SZ-8 in 2011, no daily updates though