Artists’ Concept of a Third Generation Chinese Station. Image Credit Xinhuan.net Following the success of Tiangong 1, China announced last year that after another round of development with the follow on Tiangong 2 station, that it is planning to open up its considerably more advanced third generation station to international astronauts. Unfortunately, an ongoing ban on […]
Source: Xinhuanet.com China’s Shenzhou-10 mission lifted off successfully this morning at 5:38 a.m. EDT, (5:38 p.m. local) sending the crew of three on what is expected to be a 40 hour rendezvous with the awaiting Tiangong-1 space station. During what the Chinese space agency has described as an “applications oriented flight,” the astronauts will conduct both a manual and an automatic docking […]
The accommodations are hardly palatial even by current space station standards, but China has taken a major step in advancing its space ambitions with the first crewed mission to its Tiangong-1 Space Station. Although this is a short duration mission, and is intended to build the experience to lead towards a next generation station, following a path much like Soviet […]
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