China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
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Collaboration Between China and the United States
In two thousand eight, two thousand nine, i was on white house appointed committee called the review of us. And my work on that committee, i put forward those ideas to the rest of the committee members. But there was such a, such a wall of some very influential members of congress. They were able to get language inserted into the nassau, into the appropriations bills and things like that,. That basically said, nassau is not allowed to do anything with china in space flight. It was interpreted down to the point where nassau would not allow chinese journalists to cover some of the last shuttle launches. So that's how bad things were, even though we had
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