Really Wasteful

Below is a the 10/12/05 RedNova.com front page
headline combined w/ an AFP/Yahoo blurb.

Neither bother to say if anything useful would come of it.

Chinese Crew Blasts Off for Space Mission

China's second manned spacecraft blasted off from a remote northwestern
launch site on Wednesday, two years after the country joined an elite club
of space powers. Astronauts Fei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haisheng, 41, both
colonels in the People's Liberation Army, were handpicked from 14 fighter
pilots and had been in the running for China's first manned space launch in 2003.

Graphic showing key dates in the history of China's space program,
following the launch of the nation's second manned space flight.
(AFP/Graphic/Martin Megino) 10/12/05