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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…
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Russian Mars Moon Sample Probe Poised to Soar atop Upgraded Rocket – Video
[/caption] After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
China set to ‘Leap Forward in Space’ as Tiangong 1 Rolls to Launch Pad
[/caption] China’s human spaceflight program is gearing up to take a highly significant “Leap forward in Space” after their “Tiangong…