BEIJING, Nov 5 (Reuters) – China’s Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft’s return mission has been delayed after the spacecraft was suspected to have been hit by small space debris, the official Xinhua reported on Wednesday. An impact analysis and risk assessment are underway, the state news agency said without providing any new schedule for the return mission….
BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) – China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported. It was the seventh mission to the permanently inhabited Chinese space station since…
BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) – China has announced it will arrange for a Pakistan astronaut to perform short-term missions as part of China’s space station missions, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The astronaut from Pakistan will train alongside Chinese astronauts, Xinhua said. Sign up here. Reporting by Liz Lee and Qiaoyi Li; Editing…