Beijing (XNA) Jun 18, 2012 - China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2012 - Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network and a key step towards the nation's first space station.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 18, 2012 - The successful launching of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday proves again China's grasp of essential space techniques and shows Chinese vision on how to develop the space program with steady st
United Nations (AFP) June 18, 2012 - Rich countries will have to stop the consumer high life as part of any deal to heal the world's social and environmental stresses, a top UN official said ahead of a key development summit this week.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 18, 2012 - China has designed contingency plans to address more than 700 emergencies during the Shenzhou-9 space mission, which includes both automated and manual docking between the spaceship and the target o
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2012 - Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network.
Vandenberg AFB (SPX) Jun 18, 2012 - Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2012 - The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2012 - As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut.
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2012 - China on Saturday launched its most ambitious space mission to date, sending its first female astronaut to the final frontier and bidding to achieve the country's first manual space docking. Shenzhou-9 -- China's fourth manned space mission -- launched at 6:37 pm (1037 GMT) from the remote Gobi desert in the nation's northwest, state television pictures showed.
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2012 - China on Saturday launched its most ambitious space mission to date, sending its first female astronaut to the final frontier and bidding to achieve the country's first manual space docking.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk at the SpaceX Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, Wednesday to see the first commercial space capsule to
Isle of Man, UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - For the last five days Major Liu Yang, a 33 year old Air Force pilot, has been living with five colleagues, and a team of doctors and technical specialists, in a quarantine facility at the Jiuquan S
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - Three astronauts will soon board China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory after the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docks with it. The first Chinese crew to fly in space in roughly four years includes China's firs
Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2012 - China said Friday a female astronaut will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft when it launches on Saturday ahead of the country's first manned space docking.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2012 - Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has mark
