China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand and Turkey create space agency, China World Daily, Shenzhen, China.JPG, originally uploaded by gruntzooki.
The spacewalking taikonautics of last week, a successful launch into orbit of SpaceX Falcon-1 and this news all make for a fantastic new dawn of a post-NASA era, foregrounded against the spectacular collapse of western late-capitalism.
Charlie Stross is right – you couldn’t make it up.
Petafloptimism 