Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth Friday after completing the country's longest-ever crewed mission, the latest landmark in Beijing's drive to become a major space power.
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Three astronauts who lived for 90 days on China's space station departed Thursday in preparation for returning to Earth.
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Sep 16, 2021
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Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station.
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Aug 20, 2021
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Three Chinese astronauts have begun making China's new space station their home for the next three months, after their launch and arrival at the station Thursday marked further advances in the country's ambitious space program.
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ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China's coastal city of Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish ...
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Aug 25, 2017
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China on Thursday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station, marking further progress in the ambitious Chinese space program.
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Apr 20, 2017
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China is preparing to launch its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station.
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Apr 20, 2017
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Astronauts on Chinese space station Tiangong-2 greet ESA and Thomas Pesquet. This video was recorded inside the Chinese space station Tiangong-2 by astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong. The duo landed safely on Earth on ...
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Nov 21, 2016
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A pair of Chinese astronauts entered the country's orbiting space station for a month-long stay early Wednesday, as China's sixth and longest crewed mission gets underway in earnest.
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Oct 19, 2016
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Three Chinese astronauts on the country's longest manned space mission on Sunday succeeded in manually docking their spacecraft with a module orbiting Earth, state media said.
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