China launches Shenzhou X manned spacecraft with three astronauts.
China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 makes a safe landing on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 made a safe landing on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
Shenzhou X returns to earth
Radars and optical instruments deployed at the main landing area in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have detected the return capsule of Shenzhou X spacecraft, which is scheduled to take three astronauts to touch town soon after fulfilling the mission of manned and automated dockings with Tiangong-1 target orbiter.
In China's first "space class", the country's second female astronaut in space Thursday says she and her crewmates haven't seen any UFOs during the space trip.
The space lecture on the Tiangong-1 began for the first time in Chinese history at 10 am Beijing time on June 20, 2013.
Three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou X spacecraft, which was launched into space on Tuesday, gave Dragon Boat Festival greetings to all Chinese on Wednesday.
The cowling debris contained the black box of the spacecraft which was launched at 5:38 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu province, carrying three astronauts.
Graphics shows the launch procedure of the manned Shenzhou-X spacecraft on June 11, 2013. China on Tuesday launched the manned Shenzhou-X spacecraft in Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu province.
China's Shenzhou-X spacecraft, with three astronauts on board, entered its designated orbit on Tuesday afternoon.
Astronauts Nie Haisheng (R), Zhang Xiaoguang (C) and Wang Yaping attend the setting-out ceremony of the manned Shenzhou-X mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu province, June 11, 2013.
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