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Packing Up TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2012 The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is drawing to a close. Soon, the astronauts will board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft that carried them to Tiangong 1 for the return to Earth. The departure of the crew will wrap up China's most ambitious human space flight to date, but does not mean that work on Tiangong 1 is over. Packing up Tiangong 1 at the end of this first expedition will set the stage for a long program of work in the months ahead, and the arrival of more astrona ... read more |
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 Chinese astronauts set to return Chinese astronauts will return to Earth in several days after completing the major tasks, and measures have been taken to ensure a safe return, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said her ... more | .. |
 China to send foreign astronauts to space with its spacecraft someday It is believed that China will be able to train foreign astronauts with its own space technology and send them to space by Shenzhou spacecraft someday, the spokeswoman of China's manned space progra ... more | .. |
 China's first female astronaut excells in performance: spokeswoman Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman entering the space, had an excellent performance in past eight days, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. The 33-year-old veteran pilot adapte ... more | .. |
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 Arrangements for China's next space mission based on review of Shenzhou-9 The arrangements for the Shenzhou-10 mission will be decided after a full review of the Shenzhou-9 mission and status of orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, said a spokeswoman for China's manned space p ... more | .. |
 China invests some 19 billion yuan in space docking missions China has planned about 19 billion yuan (about 3 billion U.S. dollars) in budget for the country's space rendezvous and docking missions, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Chinese astronauts complete major tasks in first six days in space Three Chinese astronauts have completed major tasks over the past six days inside the conjoint Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 space lab, before they succeeded in a manual docking on Sunday. Ch ... more | .. |
 Staying stimulated in space How are the astronauts' lives on their first day in the Tiangong-1? Will they feel bored? They have completed a lot of scheduled work and began to implement the same work and rest schedule as on the ... more |
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 China conducts first manual space docking A Chinese spacecraft on Sunday successfully completed the country's first manual docking in orbit, a milestone in an ambitious programme to build a space station by the end of the decade. ... more | .. |
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 ILS and AsiaSat Announce a New Contract for an ILS Proton Launch International Launch Services (ILS) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced a contract for an ILS Proton launch service as early as 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Ka ... more | .. |
 EVE Underflight Calibration Sounding Rocket Launch The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched on 11 February 2010, and the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE), one of the three solar instruments aboard SDO, began normal operations on 1 May 2010. ... more |
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