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 ...

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.

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has concluded its first round selections for payload specialists for the national manned space program and nominated 40 qualified candidates ...

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 ...