July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...'ve flown their version of Skylab", says Roger Handberg, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and, along with the Russian Mir...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... of teaching apparatuses onboard is always limited. So we adopted the in-situ approach. We used the mass measurement device left in Tiangong-1 to measure our body weight changes in space and dedicated a space class to this. When teaching was assigned...
21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
...Satellite Launch Center (Hainan Island). A Long March 5B rocket is expected to launch in September, and will carry the TianGong-2 orbiting laboratory module. The module will test technologies in space in preparation for future space station. A manned...
29 April 2021
China launches first section of its massive space station
...ton payload to orbits near Earth. The Chinese space station named Tiangong – meaning "Heavenly Palace" – will need around another 10...the China Academy of Space Technology. "We aim to build Tiangong into a state-level space lab supporting the long stay...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
...am Beijing time (01:22 GMT), and their craft docked at the Tiangong station around seven hours later. The astronauts Nie Haisheng, 56, ... with the forward port of the core module" of the Tiangong station, said the China Manned Space Agency, as state TV...
17 September 2021
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
..., which specialises in China's space programme. "It is a very important and very much needed start for the CSS." Tiangong, meaning "heavenly palace", is expected to operate for at least 10 years. The mission is headed by Nie Haisheng, a decorated air...
