... after doubling its initial intended work life. During this time it has seen contact with the Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and in a statement by Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned space engineering office, the lab was...
... (CMSA). The spacecraft, which will be larger than China's current Shenzhou crewed spaceship, will be lofted to space on the maiden flight of... three to four times greater than that of the Shenzhou spacecraft, said the news agency. The upcoming mission...
...will launch the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft one after another. The astronauts ...that mission is complete, the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-13 crewed spacecraft will be launched and a second group of...
... command of “Ignition” was spoken, my crewmate Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and I started our space journey as the Shenzhou 10 crew. Teaching space class My major responsibilities were space class and day-to-day care of our crewmembers...
...), the main contractor for the country’s space programs, the unnamed space capsule is the successor to China's Shenzhou spacecraft; the country’s workhorse transport vehicle for its crewed space program. It can carry up to six astronauts...
Somewhere in the skies above the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile, China's space station Tiangong-2 is due to fall back to Earth any minute now, if it hasn’t already. With a name that translates as 'heavenly palace’, this 18-metre-wide ...