BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A new generation of female talent, from astronauts to chief designers, is forging crucial contributions to China's space exploration endeavors, supported by national ...

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 ...

Three Chinese taikonauts blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday and set off after the the Tiangong space station to replace three long-duration crew ...

In the coming days, the People's Republic of China will become the eighth country to see one of its female citizens in space, and just the third country to put them there with its own technology. But ...

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 ...

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 off ...

Foreign astronauts are welcome to work in China's space station, Chinese taikonaut Wang Yaping, also a delegate of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said on Sunday.

China appears to be on the brink of selecting female taikonaut for the up-coming Shenzhou 9 mission, likely to launch in early June. Following the success of last year’s Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. China's first man in space said today he was feeling fine, Xinhua news agency reported. "Taikonaut" Yang Liwei, 38, was speaking 34 ...

Chen Dong has set a new record for the most cumulative days living and working in space by a Chinese taikonaut. The China Manned Space Agency said on Tuesday that the twice-time space traveler, who is ...

Waving a red national flag at the cameras, a People's Liberation Army colonel stepped out of his orbiter 213 miles above the earth and into the hearts of his nation, becoming the first Chinese man to ...