China’s Long March 5 Will Not Launch Until 2015

Credit: Long March 3C: CMSEO
Somewhere in China, technicians are struggling with their machine tools, trying to make huge but perfectly shaped metal structures—perfectly round, and with complex internal shapes to withstand the loads of an 800-ton rocket accelerating toward orbital velocity. The technicians have routinely...

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