As China announces the inclusion of, for the first time in history, payload specialists from Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SARs) into the country's taikonaut pool, experts and ...

"My home is right next to the high school where he studied, and our kitchen faces the small room where he lived during his high school years. Every evening during dinner, I could hear him reciting and ...

BEIJING — A Chinese taikonaut stepped outside the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft Saturday and waved a small red Chinese flag at the millions of his countrymen watching on live television and cheering at their ...

A month after China’s taikonaut trio returned from space, the country is sending another three-member team, including its first female astronaut involved in the Chinese space station-building mission.

Barbara Demick BEIJING — A Chinese taikonaut stepped outside the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft Saturday and waved a small, red Chinese flag at the millions of his countrymen watching on live television and ...

Plunging temperatures and overcast skies are not expected to hamper China's first-ever manned space launched scheduled for next week, state press reports. Skies have turned cloudy in north China with ...