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2012-06-16 — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday congratulated the country’s space scientists and astronauts on the successful launch of the Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft. “I feel very glad to hear the success of launching the Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft and I ...

2012-06-16  — China has made dozens of technological modifications to the spacecraft and carrier rocket to be used in the country’s upcoming manned space docking mission to ensure the success, a spokesperson for the mission said Friday. All technological modifications ...

2012-06-16 — An eloquent speaker and a lover of cooking, Liu Yang is well-poised to be the first Chinese woman in space. When she watched the news on television of China’s first manned space mission in 2003, the pilot couldn’t ...

2012-06-16 — China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liquid oxygen/kerosene high-pressure staged combustion cycle engine ...

2012-06-15 — The three crew of China’s deep-sea submersible Jiaolong stepped aboard the mother ship Friday after their historic dive to the deepest place on the planet to be welcomed with a bucket of water over each of their heads. ...