[meteorite-list] Chang's Moon

[Jerry]

Cool post Doug!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "mexicodoug" <mexicodoug at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Chang's Moon


> Here's the first public photo from China's first Moon orbiter launched 
> last month.
>
> http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/132125.html
>
> Not bad for the Chang'e ship (apparently pronounced "Ch-ong-er" after the 
> snooping woman in her husband's personal items, who feared being caught, 
> ate the evidence (her husband's vitamin herb) and fled in to the Moon with 
> her rabbit that now manufacture herbal remedies).
>
> By the time we see manned voyages back to the Moon, a thriving business in 
> Chinese restaurants will be serving travelers take-out.
>
> The Chinese do have a sense of humor.  Curiously, Apollo 11 (Armstrong, 
> Collins, Aldrin, 1969) and Houston joked about this Chinese legend upon 
> arriving by the Moon in what was to become the first Moonwalk, and now 
> China has contending for the last laugh,
>
> Mission Control: "...Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 
> 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon because she stole the 
> pill for immortality from her husband. You might also look for her 
> companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is only 
> standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the 
> rabbit is not recorded."
>
> Michael Collins: "OK we'll keep a close eye for the bunny-girl."
>
> Best Wishes,
> Doug
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