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China has launched three astronauts into space to replace the crew on the Chinese Tiangong space station, marking a further step in the country’s ambitions for a crewed mission to the Moon and explore ...

Shenzhou 22 will carry home the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 21 mission, who had been without a lifeboat for 10 days. Three Chinese astronauts finally have a reliable way to get home from orbit.

China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off ...

China conducted an urgent unmanned spacecraft launch on Tuesday, after damage to a previous mission's return capsule left the crew on its space station without a means of getting back to Earth. The ...

China has successfully launched three astronauts to its Tiangong space station, marking another step towards a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-20 spacecraft lifted off atop a Long ...