She's not an astronaut or cosmonaut - Liu Yang is a taikonaut, and tomorrow she's scheduled to become China's first woman to venture into space. She's one of a three member team scheduled to lift ...

The Shenzhou 18 flight is China's seventh piloted mission to the space station and its fifth since around-the-clock staffing began in June 2022. The launching was carried live on Chinese ...

Like the USA and several other countries, China has expressed a growing interest in a manned mission to the Moon in the coming years, in what would be the first human feet to touc ...

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.

SHANGHAI — There are a dozen or so candidates, all stellar pilots with the Chinese air force who average about 5 feet 7 inches in height and 142 pounds in weight. Most have been in training for ...

Taikonaut duo blasts off for China's longest space mission China launched two astronauts into space Monday on a mission to dock with an experimental space station, where they will remain aboard ...

Then, the taikonaut lobbied for the additional flight by expressing his enthusiasm for communism. "Let the vastness of space witness again the absolute loyalty of a revolutionary soldier, a CPC ...

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 ...

China's first astronaut circled Earth on Wednesday, chatting with Chinese leaders by radio and saying hello to "all the peoples of the world" after blasting into orbit on a mission that made his ...

China launched its first crewed space mission in 2003, but its dreams of people in space stretch back much farther. A recurring image of that interplanetary future: chubby-cheeked toddlers ...