Astronaut takes China's first spacewalk

That would be really hard to say. Certainly, it really should be easier to accomplish the calculations and control circuitry. However, I think there is a certain inalienable risk in sending a human being into space. So many little things which can go wrong. When I am using my computer and it suddenly crashes, I just need to wait for it to reboot. The situation is not the same with a rocket. I try to program things from time to time. Small scripts, I have no great programming experience. I can, however, automate some processes .. especially where forms are concerned. Well, occasionally my code is off by a semicolon or something and the whole thing tanks or I have failed to see some corruption in the code where one variable is not forgotten before it is used again. Really foolish mistakes. However, I imagine that the number of ways things can go wrong as so much greater in something as complicated and precise as a rocket launch.

You are right about that nowadays things are way better then when the USA went. We may have been the first but probably not the best. They have so much new technology and information way more then the US had when it first sent a man into space and I feel that can make it better. Which is great considering all the information they will be able to relate back to us and use to teach newer generations of children.

I think this is great that they have finally developed enough to do this. They have been so far behind in the space race that I did not think they would ever get this far. It was interesting to her Bush report that this means that we need to make more advances in our space program.