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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…

13 years ago

Russia’s Bold Sample Return Mission to Mars and Phobos Blasts Off

Russia has successfully launched the Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to Mars aiming to return a soil sample from Phobos, the…

13 years ago

China Technology Surges Forward with Spectacular First Docking in Space

http://youtu.be/_CAvIeYO5jM Video Caption: Live Video of Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 docking in Earth orbit. Photos below. Credit: CCTV commentary/CMSE China’s technological…

13 years ago

China launches Shenzhou-8 bound for Historic 1st Docking in Space

[/caption] China today launched the Shenzhou-8 capsule on a historic mission to accomplish the nation’s first ever docking in space…

13 years ago

Shenzhou-8 rolled out for Blastoff to China’s 1st Space Station on November 1

[/caption] China’s Shenzhou-8 capsule and the Long March booster rocket have been rolled out to the Gobi desert launch pad…

13 years ago

Russia Fuels Phobos-Grunt and sets Mars Launch for November 9

[/caption] Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, has set November 9 as the launch date for the Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars and…

13 years ago

China’s Shenzhou-8 Mission Poised For Launch

[/caption] What's new in space flight? With only days to go, China is ready to launch an unmanned spacecraft that…

13 years ago

Bizarre Video: China’s Tiangong 1 Space Lab Animation set to ‘America the Beautiful’ Soundtrack

http://youtu.be/arCsVh-NePM The Guardian newspaper in England is reporting that China’s state run television, CCTV, and China’s space agency released a…

13 years ago

China Blasts First Space Lab Tiangong 1 to Orbit

[/caption] China launched their first space station module into orbit today (Sept. 29), marking a major milestone in the rapidly…

13 years ago