Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk. On 7 November at 1051 GMT, Mission Commander Zhai Zhigang opened the hatch of the Chinese Space Station (CSS) to be joined by Wang. The third member of the crew, Taikonaut Ye Guangfu, assisted from...
Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, has formed a team to develop the first free-flying commercial space station. The space station, known as Starlab, will be a continuously crewed commercial platform, dedicated to conducting critical...
China successfully launched the human crewed Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on a Long March 2F (CZ-2F) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 1623 GMT on 15 October. The crew headed for the Tiangong space station for a six-month stay consisted of Zhai Zhigang...
A Tianzhou cargo freighter launched by China has docked with its space station on the same day. The mission lifted-off at 0710 GMT, propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket. The autonomous freighter, called Tianzhou-3, then conducted an automatic docking...
The Shenzhou 12 craft with Taikonauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo undocked from the Chinese Space Station (CSS) – also known as Tiangong – on 16 September at 0056 GMT, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office. The space station had been...
Shenzhou 12 taikonauts, Liu Boming and Nie Haisheng conducted the second EVA from the Chinese Space Station (CSS) on 20 August at 0038 GMT. Tang Hongbo remained inside the Tianhe-1 module this time whilst mission commander Nie Haisheng worked with Liu Boming to...
