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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JIUQUAN, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- For a long time, Deng Qingming was known to the public for serving as a backup taikonaut who had never flown into space. Since becoming one of China's first 14 trainee ...

BEIJING, June 27. /TASS/. Open-orbit repairs of solar panels at China’s Tiangong orbital space station serve as an example of teamwork and guide future work in outer space, Chinese taikonaut ...