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China to Send Its First Woman to Space on June 16
China will launch a three-person crew on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 10:37 UTC (6:37 a.m. EDT) on board a…
Upcoming First Human Mission to Chinese Space Station May Include Female Taikonaut
[/caption] The Chinese government has announced they will launch three taikonauts sometime in mid-June 2012, on the first manned mission…
Going to the Moon? Don’t Touch the Historical Artifacts, NASA Says
[/caption] Don’t say you haven’t been warned. NASA put out an official document today specifying how close any future spacecraft…
Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station
[/caption] Astrophotographer extraordinaire Thierry Legault has made a name for himself with his images of spacecraft transiting across the face…
Next Chinese Mission Might Include Some Women
[/caption] Officials from the Chinese Space Agency announced today that they've completed crew selection for their next team of spacefarers…
China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map
[/caption] Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of…
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X-37B – The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Video provided courtesy of United Launch Alliance The United States Air Force’s second flight of the X-37B – is headed…
Shenzhou-8 lands after China’s 1st Space Docking propelling Ambitious Human Spaceflight Agenda
[/caption] China’s historic first docking mission in space ended in a complete success today (Nov. 17) following the safe landing…
China completes 2nd Docking to Space Lab and sets Path to Manned flights in 2012
[/caption] Chinese space prowess took another major leap forward today (Nov. 14) when the unmanned Shenzhou-8 capsule successfully re-docked with…
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Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise
[/caption] Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return…