Nearly six years ago the European Space Agency surprised its longtime spaceflight partners at NASA, as well as diplomatic ...

Dream-chasing' astronauts to carry out their first mission outside space station The Shenzhou XV mission crew, who are now inside the Tiangong space station, are scheduled to carry out their first ...

This simulated image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov 30, 2022 shows China's Shenzhou XV manned ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) had been preparing its astronauts for possible missions to China's three-module Tiangong space station. In August 2017, for example, ESA's Samantha Cristoforetti ...

In 2021, he flied to space again, and became one of the first group of astronauts stationed in the Chinese Space Station. The Shenzhou 12 manned space mission also sets many other ...

marking the first time China had six astronauts in space at the same time. The station’s third and final module docked with the station this month. The astronauts were carried out of the ...

"The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish a long term cooperation with China and ESA astronauts to fly on China's space station," the agency said that year. "This is unfortunate news, but not ...

Every year, on Career Day, classrooms are filled with little kids gleefully exclaiming they want to be astronauts when they ...