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2013-06-17 — China’s manned space program has achieved rapid development in a “less costly way,” a U.S. astrophysicist said Sunday. “China did a great job in successfully sending another three astronauts into space,” George Smoot said while visiting the Harbin ...

2013-04-29 — Over 600 Chinese have applied to join an ambitious Dutch aerospace project that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars for permanent settlement. The Dutch project, while triggering enthusiasm to explore outer space, is also ...

2013-04-05 – China’s first space science active experiment was conducted Friday morning to study the dynamical processes of the Earth’s ionosphere, a top scientific institute said. The experiment conducted at a sounding rocket launch site in Zhanzhou, south China’s Hainan Province, ...

2013-04-03 — China will send another female astronaut in space when the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft lifts off this summer. Wang Yaping, a former air force pilot, will join a crew of three on Shenzhou 10 and will become only the ...

2013-03-07 — China says a space launch center being built in the tropical island province of Hainan, the country’s fourth such facility, will be ready in two years. Under construction since 2009, when completed the Hainan center in China’s southernmost ...

2013-01-04 — Two days after China started its own GPS network aimed to rival the US global positioning system, the nation’s powerful military, which is using it extensively has asked researchers to improve its security and ability to stop external ...