2012-03-02 (China Military News cited from globaltvedmonton.com and by Peter Rakobowchu) -- The five partners on the International Space Station are looking to the future of the orbiting space lab, with some hoping that it will one day become even more worldly.
"We are not a closed club, our doors are ... READ MORE

2012-02-16 (China Military News cited from indiatimes.com) -- China has put off its plan to send a manned mission this year to experiment space rendezvous and docking mission.
Instead an unmanned space craft would be sent to follow up last year's successful experiment of space docking, official media here reported today.
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2012-01-07 (China Military News cited from msn.com and by Mike Wall ) -- According to a recent report by the BBC, a new article in Spaceflight Magazine suggests that the robotic X-37B space plane might be surveilling China's recently launched space laboratory Tiangong 1. As evidence, the article notes apparently striking ... READ MORE

2012-01-06 (China Military News cited from bbc.co.uk and by Jonathan Amos) -- America's classified X-37B spaceplane is probably spying on China, according to a report in Spaceflight magazine.
The unpiloted vehicle was launched into orbit by the US Air Force in March last year and has yet to return to Earth.
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2011-12-05 (China Military News cited from spacedaily.com and by Morris Jones) -- The successful first docking mission to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has cleared the path for greater things to come. The flight of the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft demonstrated two successful dockings with the laboratory, as well as ... READ MORE

2011-11-14 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- China's Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft re-docked successfully with the Tiangong-1, a module of the country's planned space lab, Monday evening, according to the mission's control center.
About half an hour before this docking, the Shenzhou-8 had successfully disengaged from Tiangong-1 after a 12-day flight ... READ MORE

2011-11-03 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country's first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth's surface.
Nearly two days after it was launched, the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 docked with space lab module Tiangong-1 at 1:36 a.m., ... READ MORE

2011-11-01 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan announced early Tuesday that the launch of Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft is successful.
The spacecraft was successfully sent into the designated orbit after the blastoff at 5:58 a.m. at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern ... READ MORE

2011-10-29 (China Military News cited from spacedaily.com and by Morris Jones) -- With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that will follow. We're expecting China to perform two docking tests with the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft in November this year. ... READ MORE