The crew of China's Shenzhou 9 mission meets reporters for a press conference before launch on June 15, 2012 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. From left to right are: Liu Yang ...
Three Chinese astronauts undocked their spacecraft from an orbiting robotic module Wednesday (June 27) and began preparing to return to Earth Thursday night. China's Shenzhou 9 vehicle separated from ...
China's Shenzhou 9 space crew who will launch on Saturday (June 16) on the nation's first manned docking mission — including China's first female astronaut — will wear a dual dragon-emblazoned mission ...
The Shenzhou-9 -- China's fourth manned space mission -- blasts off at 1037 GMT from the Jiuquan space base, northwest China's Gansu province in the remote Gobi desert on June 16, 2012. China launched ...
An artist’s impression of a Shenzhou spacecraft (Shenzhou 9) docking with the Tiangong 1 space station. Photo via. China took another major step in space this week. After launching into orbit on ...
Chinese astronaut Liu Yang made history on Saturday, when she became the country's first woman to enter space. Liu, 33, joined crew members Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, ...
Two days ago, China's Shenzhou-10 space mission took flight from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi desert. The mission's primary payload was its three astronauts ("taikonauts"), who were bound for ...
China has taken the next step in its quest to become a major space power with the launch of the unmanned Shenzhou 8 vehicle. The spacecraft rode a Long March 2F rocket into orbit where it will attempt ...