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January 23, 2014

Extra Time for Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2014
China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is alive and well in orbit. For most spacecraft, that's a nominal state. But for this mission, it's strange. Tiangong 1 was launched in September 2011 with an advertised lifetime of two years. It played host to three dockings by Shenzhou spacecraft - Shenzhous 8, 9 and 10. The last two carried crews of three astronauts to live on board the laboratory, which is really a small space station. When the last crew departed Tiangong in June this year, Tiangong had esse ... read more

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