China's third manned-spaceship will carry three astronauts to accomplish missions like walking in space, repairing outside the spacecraft and installing facilities in outer space, said Yang Liwei on ...

Mainland space officials say the planned Shenzhou VII space walk is a milestone in the nation's rapidly developing space programme. But with the plaudits came the acknowledgement that the crew would ...

The three-person crew inside the Shenzhou VII spacecraft was lifted off its launch pad with a Long March II-F (CZ-2F) rocket in the northwestern region of Gansu Province. The three Chinese astronauts ...

From the People’s Daily Online via Xinhua News Agency (link): China will launch Shenzhou VII with three astronauts in September 2008, after the Beijing Olympic Games, said Song Zhengyu, deputy ...

While tainted milk has cast the brand of China-made into international humiliation, another China-made, Shenzhou-7 spacecraft, brought pride and glory to the country's 1.3 billion population. Although ...

China on Friday launched its Shenzhou VII manned space mission carrying three astronauts whose main task was to complete the country's first spacewalk, dpa reported. The spacecraft lifted off from the ...