19 February 2021
China's astronauts begin training for space station missions
Chinese astronauts have started receiving intensive training for spaceflights tasked with building the nation's space station, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Tuesday. Several astronauts have spent the past year in hard training and...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
..., 56, Liu Boming, 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, are to work and stay on Tianhe, the living quarters of the future space station, for three months. Haisheng, the mission's commander, is a decorated air force pilot in the People's Liberation Army...
07 November 2018
China unveils its new space station 'Heavenly Palace'
... to house three astronauts on a permanent basis to conduct biological and microgravity research. And China is not keeping the space station all to itself. Earlier this year, the country announced that the lab would be open to "all countries...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... that it has plans to construct its own "very small" space station in the next decade. "Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan told reporters in New...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
... initially to accommodate astronauts at NASA’s yet-to-be-built Moon-orbiting Gateway project, will be used to construct a full-blown space station, said the company at press conference Wednesday. For the past few years, many reports have surfaced...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... a T-shaped structure that can house a total of six astronauts on stays of up to six months. China is aiming to have its space station fully operational by next year and its expected lifetime is around 15 years, the programme’s planners have said...
