Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

the spotlight is once again turned on China’s space program. To help inform the discussions, it would be helpful to address a few of the myths surrounding China’s space efforts. Myth #1 ...

China has made remarkable strides in space exploration, including building its own space station and landing a rover on Mars. Yet its space program also raises serious safety and transparency ...

As we come to the end of 2023, it is an apt time to revisit China’s priorities for its space program. In President Xi Jinping’s speech at the 20th Party Congress in October 2022, space ...

China’s space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars ...

Like the United States sought to do in the 1960s with Apollo, China views its increasingly robust space program as a means to increase its prestige on the world stage and advance geopolitical ...

"The 'Blue Book' pointed out that China's aerospace ... China's official state news agency. China's space program has made considerable strides, including sending probes to distant planets and ...

On Monday, China's space program successfully launched another large piece of its space station. The 23-ton Mengtian module will provide pressurized volume for scientific experiments and is the ...

BEIJING — China’s burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country’s orbiting space station, officials said Monday. Monday’s announcement ...

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The selection and training process will commence soon for foreign astronauts looking to participate in joint flights to Tiangong, a senior official on China's manned space program said this year.