With China’s Chang’e-1 lunar orbiter now sending back pictures of the dark side of the moon the Asian superpower’s leadership has been hailing its success and has reasserted, again, that China’s space programme is for peace and its own prosperity.
Its one-time Communist bloc superpower rival, Russia, has done a deal with Franco-Italian joint venture Thales Alenia Space for co-operation with the Russian state owned NPO-PM satellite manufacturer
While here RIA Novosti reports on Energia blowing its own trumpet
