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A composite image taken Jan. 4 by a NASA photographer tracks the International Space Space as it crosses the Moon’s path in sky over Houston.

A composite image taken Jan. 4 by a NASA photographer tracks the International Space Space as it crosses the Moon’s path in sky over Houston.

The Chinese are going to the moon and they’ll plant their flag up there and bring ours back down and put it on eBay.

Chinese taikonaut Zhai ZhigangRay Trapp, a longtime driver of the space shuttle’s mobile launch platform, quoted in Air & Space magazine. Trapp was one of 14 people profiled in an article on the impact of the shuttle’s retirement on Florida’s Space Coast.

Image: Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang’s spacewalk during the 2008 Shenzhou-7 space mission