Topic: East Asia
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch up to two manned space missions in 2012 as it hones the skills needed to secure a long-term manned presence in outer space, an official spokeswoman said on Monday, on the eve of the launch of ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it will launch within weeks its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module it put into orbit last month, in what will mark a crucial test of its growing space program.The unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, ...
It was supposed to be a patriotic tribute to China's technological prowess. Instead, a video showing the launch of China's first space station module inadvertently glorified the country's biggest rival.A video animation put together by state television to mark the highly publicised ...
China took its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launched an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace", took off on schedule shortly after 9:15 pm (1315 GMT) from the Gobi desert in China's ...
China will take its first step towards building a space station on Thursday, when it launches an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.China sees its ambitious space programme as a symbol of its global stature and state media said the launch ...
China is due to take its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launches an experimental module ahead of the country's National Day celebrations.The Asian nation sees its ambitious space programme as a symbol of its global stature, ...
China said Tuesday it will launch its Tiangong-1 space module later this month, marking its first step towards building a Chinese space station.The Asian giant sees its space programme as a symbol of its global stature, growing technical expertise, and the Communist ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch a prototype module for a planned space lab next week, state media said on Tuesday, a step that will bring it closer to the United States and Russia as space powers.The Tiangong 1, or "Heavenly Palace," ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - When a Russian rocket failed on its way to orbit last month, it exposed a vulnerability in the International Space Station program that a former NASA astronaut thinks China could help address.The August 24 failure of the ...
Japan said it had successfully test-fired the engine of its "Akatsuki" space probe in preparation for a renewed attempt to get it into orbit around Venus in 2015.Following December's failed attempt to send the probe to the second planet from the sun, ...
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