China launches Shenzhou 20 astronauts to Tiangong space station ... and Jing Haipeng of the Shenzhou 16 space mission attend a see-off ceremony at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 30, ...

Leading the Shenzhou-16 mission was Jing Haipeng, 56, a senior spacecraft pilot from China's first batch of astronaut trainees in the late 1990s. He had travelled to space three times before ...

The three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 16 mission returned to Earth on Monday (Oct. 30) after a five-month stint aboard the country's Tiangong space station.

The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket just after 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) Tuesday.

China’s space program The Shenzhou-13 mission last year was a major step for the country’s young space program, which is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most advanced.

The spacecraft Shenzhou-20 and the crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 5:17 p.m. (0917 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV.

China launched the Shenzhou 19 mission to orbit today (Oct. 29), sending three astronauts toward the nation's Tiangong space station for a six-month stay.

China’s Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 20 manned space mission, lifts off Thursday for a space station, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan ...

The spacecraft Shenzhou-20 and the crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 5:17 p.m. (0917 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Shenzhou 19 is China's eighth crewed mission to the Tiangong space station. The three-module, T-shaped orbital outpost was constructed via three Long March 5B launches across 2021 and 2022.

China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited Tiangong space station on Thursday in its 15th crewed spaceflight and 20th overall in its Shenzhou program, which started more than three ...