Chinese Crew Blasts Off for Space Mission

This is just further incentive as to why we should invest more money in space exploration, dump the shuttle program entirely (why waste millions, if not billions, of taxpayer money on high-school science experiments in space which can be conducted with the exact same results here on Earth), return to the Moon, and blast-off for the planet Mars. There is nothing like a good old ideological competition to shake things up a bit and get something moving.