The CZ-2F Y21 vehicle was rolled out to the launch pad on October 24. This is currently China’s only crew-rated launch vehicle. The first stage is supported by four boosters, giving a combined thrust of approximately 6.5 meganewtons. All engines on the vehicle burn Dinitrogen Tetroxide and Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine.

China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Saturday via its official WeChat account four spaceflight missions scheduled for 2026 and invited public submissions for the annual mission emblems. Among the missions,

A month after China’s taikonaut trio returned from space, the country is sending another three-member team, including its first female astronaut involved in the Chinese space station-building mission. Wang Yaping is part of the second crew that will ...

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 nation’s latest conquest. With the 15-minute ...

China successfully concluded its crewed spaceflight missions for 2025 as the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 11:44 pm on Friday atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket and entered designated orbit.

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 the name of the first female taikonaut remains a closely ...

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 on board the orbiting China's Tiangong space station ...

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 aboard the Shenzhou-9, accompanied by Jing Haipeng and ...

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 take a walk into space. It was "a small step by Col.

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 unmanned docking, 2012 is expected to mark another first ...