Topic: East Asia
China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space.Emails will be sent to a computer aboard Tiangong-1, a spacecraft currently orbiting the earth, and rerouted to a special China Space Post Office branch on ...
China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported.The two satellites were successfully launched aboard a Long March carrier rocket, China's main space launch vehicle, from northwest ...
China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII returned to Earth on Thursday, state media reported, after completing two space dockings that have pushed forward the nation's ambitious space programme.The vessel's re-entry module landed in the northern region of Inner Mongolia after it separated from ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - An unmanned Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth successfully on Thursday after more than two weeks in orbit, marking a pivotal moment for the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space.The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft touched down ...
China completed its second space docking on Monday, state media reported, as it moves closer towards fulfilling its ambition to set up a manned space station.The move comes 12 days after the Asian nation successfully completed its first ever "kiss" in space, ...
Two US congressmen blasted the White House and NASA for "dangerous" cooperation with China, saying technology transfer has greatly enhanced Beijing's space and missile capability.Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher warned of a ballooning national security threat brought about by what he described as ...
China took a crucial step towards fulfilling its ambition to set up a manned space station on Thursday by completing its first successful docking in orbit high above the Earth.The Shenzhou VIII spacecraft joined onto the Tiangong-1 experimental module just after 1.36 ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The crew of an isolation experiment to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars are in the final countdown before the opening on Friday of the hatch on the windowless cells in which they have been locked away since June ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top science official said U.S.-China science cooperation benefits the United States, rejecting moves to curb the exchanges by lawmakers who say it strengthens China's military.John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology, told a ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday ahead of a docking exercise that will be a key test of the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space.A Long March rocket blasted off from northwest China ...
Photo Gallery
-
South Korea Koreas Clash
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, shakes hands with U.S ...AP News - -
South Korea Koreas Nuclear
U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, left, and South ...AP News - -
South Korea US Koreas Clash
Stephen Bosworth, US special representative for North Korea policy, talks to reporters ...AP News -
![[APH] The Crazy Family - East Asia](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oTmkSsFHgew/0.jpg)
