The China Manned Space Agency announced on April 16 that the Shenzhou-13 return capsule had completed touchdown at the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desert, northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The three Shenzhou-13 astronauts aboard China's space station will return to Earth soon after a national-record six-month mission in orbit, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said on Thursday.
According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), Chinese astronauts gave a livestreamed lecture on popular-science, the second class from China's space station, to students on Earth Wednesday afternoon.
Astronauts aboard China's space station will give another class in the coming days, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced on Tuesday.
Astronaut Wang Yaping, who is still on a space mission, played a song entitled “Molihua" (Jasmine) with a guzheng and sent holiday blessings from the space station.
A press conference on China's Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday afternoon, unveiling information about the crew for this space station mission.
A Long March-2F rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft was launched on Thursday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
China’s cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 successfully docked with the space station’s key module Tianhe on Sunday, paving the way for a three-man crew of astronauts to board the station in June, according to state media.
China sent the Tianhe core module of its space station into orbit, kicking off a series of missions aimed at completing the construction of the station by the end of next year.
China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that the construction of Tiangong space station has entered a new phase and it is ready to launch its central module.
China has selected a new group of 18 reserve astronauts for its manned space program as it enters the mission preparation stage, China’s state media Xinhua said.
On the eve of China Aerospace Day on April 23, 2019, the China Manned Space Engineering Office released a video of the development of the China Space Station for the first time.
