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by TrainedMonkey 4504 days ago
Chinese space program had come a long way. Interesting test would be how they handle this failure. Will they go assigning blame and scapegoats. Or will they learn from this mistake and improve quality control/redundancy for future missions.
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I expect the latter, they aren't known to give up big dreams so easily. Consider for instance that India and Russia have had numerous failed launches for various rockets and / or space probes and both countries continue to try again and eventually succeed. Why would China not try again? I pray they do. Chinese or American or Russian or Indian, I want to see a minimal human habitat on the moon in my lifetime. Our species deserves that much, for all the work done so far.
There is no such thing as deserve, especially in cases like this. There is no ice cream for failure.

Well I mean you can go out and buy ice cream if you're at mission control and not dead. And I guess you can eat some astronaut ice cream as your air runs out or you freeze to death if you are in space.

But this isn't some deserve type thing.

Its entirely possible to do both...