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The launch of China’s manned spacecraft on Oct. 17 marks a new beginning for the country’s space program. With the planned establishment of China’s space station, even tourists may have the chance to go into outer space in the future, a Chinese official said.
Monday's successful launch of the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is another step forward to put China among leading players in space technology, said Alexander Zheleznyakov, a Russian expert on history of space flights.
Astronauts with China's Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft, which is scheduled for blast-off early Monday, will be special correspondents for Xinhua News Agency during their space mission.
It is almost closing time at the China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) and six-year-old Shi Jiajun is still standing in line, somewhat forlornly, in front of a "spacecraft," waiting for a "ride."
Seven weeks after its historic flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft now began to transmit the tens of gigabits of data it collected about the dwarf planet back to Earth.
U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday it has ordered the first-ever commercial crew flight to the International Space Station from the Boeing Company as part of an ongoing effort to restore America's human spaceflight capabilities by 2017.
No more attempts will be made to dock the Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), and efforts to safely destruct the spacecraft are underway, Russia's Mission Control Center (MCC) said Wednesday.
Japan on Thursday launched an information-gathering satellite (IGS) with an optical reconnaissance payload on an H-2A rocket, the country's second launch this year.
U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday launched four identical spacecraft to study how magnetic fields like those around Earth and Sun interact as part of efforts to understand space weather events that could disrupt power grids, communications and navigation systems.
U.S. space agency NASA said Saturday its moon probe was now "healthy" after engineers fixed mechanical problems it encountered shortly after Friday night's launch.
Three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft re-entered the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module after successfully completing a manual docking procedure on Sunday, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.
China will launch its fifth manned spacecraft Tuesday with three astronauts on board, a decade after its first astronaut entered space.
China's new spacecraft will be launched sometime between June and August, a spokesperson for the office of the country's space manned program said in a statement released Thursday.
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