“[The manned launch is] sort of economic advertising, which says if our technology is reliable enough to send up our people, it's reliable enough to send up your satellites.”
“Is the manned Chinese program something to worry about? Not really. Nobody has really come up with a military argument about man in space, which is not the same thing to say about the Chinese space program as a whole, which has clear military implications.”
“I think we'll find out in due course [whether] they are going to detach from the orbital module and undertake a few maneuvers while they are still in orbit. That would be remarkably ambitious for a second flight.”
