# Chinese Spacewalk Faked? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-spacewalk-faked/561218 "2010-11-19T14:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-spacewalk-faked/561218/1 "2010-11-19T14:18:29Z")
Check out this Youtube clip: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVbBFwdmldA) The poster gives some interesting analysis-the spacewalk does look like it was filmed in a tank. I don’t doubt that the Chinese made the flight, but the film clip looks like it was staged. In any event, why would they go to the trouble and expense of releasing a fake-looking film clip? It would be easy enough to film the actual event and edit it (if they felt it looked akward)? These is the starnge appearence of the earth-it doesn’t look at all like clips from Russian or American spacewalks. Anybody know what China’s plans are for future manned spaceflights? It has been a while…are they planning anything spectacular? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-spacewalk-faked/561218/2 "2010-11-19T15:12:05Z")
Too lazy to look this up, but there was a previous thread on this where it was debunked. You might start there. The bottom line is that no one with any serious cred thinks it was faked (IIRC, Stranger gave a pretty good post on why it wasn’t). -XT ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-spacewalk-faked/561218/3 "2010-11-19T15:21:02Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Too lazy to look this up, but there was a previous thread on this where it was debunked. You might start there. The bottom line is that no one with any serious cred thinks it was faked (IIRC, Stranger gave a pretty good post on why it wasn’t). > > -XT [Previous thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=533623&highlight=spacewalk)