The world according to Riff.

I am gonna have fun with this story....lol

BEIJING - A Chinese astronaut on Saturday performed the nation's first-ever spacewalk, the latest milestone in an ambitious program that is increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its rapid expansion. (Dammit Zhai!....yu eet too much brokkery....you gotta get out....ahhh my eyes burn)

"Shenzhou 7 has left the module, physically feel very good. Greetings to all the people of the nation and all the people of the world," Zhai said.(also said but blocked from transmitting..."Damn!....it dark as hell out here, and I am freezing my bean curds off.....lol)

Fellow astronaut Liu Boming also emerged briefly from the capsule to hand Zhai a Chinese flag that he waved for an exterior camera filming the event. The third crew member, Jing Haipeng, monitored the ship from inside the re-entry module.(Liu also eat too much brokkery, and bad kimche....poor jing)

The successful spacewalk paves the way for assembling a space station from two Shenzhou orbital modules, the next major goal of China's manned spaceflight program. China is also pursuing lunar exploration and may attempt to land a man on the moon in the next decade.(make really big firecracker......reach all the way to moon........getting  back a pobrem)  China launched its first manned mission, Shenzhou 5, in 2003, followed by a two-man mission in 2005.(Also noted big crater in china space port, and smell of gunpowder for weeks)

Since blasting off from their northwestern China launch base on Friday, the astronauts had been largely occupied with preparing the suits and adapting to zero gravity. Meals aboard the craft have followed a typical Chinese menu, featuring versions of kung pao chicken, shrimp and dried fruit, (100 year eggs, tufu squid, pickled octopus, kimchee, lol)the official Xinhua News Agency said.

On Friday, the three-module capsule shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 213 miles (343 kilometers) above Earth, meaning it is circling at a constant distance.(see ....I told you earth like maable, not egg!)

The change ensured that Earth's gravitational pull would not vary during the spacewalk attempt and will help Shenzhou make a precise landing on the Inner Mongolian Steppe on Sunday after its re-entry vehicle bursts through Earth's atmosphere, Xinhua said.(hold on tight....dis goinna be a bumpy ride)

All kidding and awful jokes aside, China is becoming a even more significant force on the planet. They will leave us in the dust so to speak if NASA and all the damn red taped spewing beurocrats, doesn't pull their collective heads out of their asses, and wake the fu** up..........and p.s....I really do like chinese food, and realize the rich culture and heritage of that country.....but I gotta be me...lol...and as the wifey always tells me "Your full of sh**"......lol...riff