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China to send more women astronauts into space

Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012, 22:13

Buoyed by the success of China`s first woman cosmonaut in achieving the country`s first manned docking, Beijing will send more women astronauts into space in the future.

Three Chinese astronauts set to return home tomorrow

Last Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 13:07

China`s first woman astronaut and two of her colleagues, who successfully accomplished the country`s first-ever manual space docking, would return home tomorrow after remaining in the space for two weeks.

Hu Jintao complements astronauts for successful manual docking

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 14:56

Greeting the astronauts aboard the spacecraft over satellite phone, Chinese President Hu Jintao complemented them for the successful manual docking of two space modules.

Chinese astronauts successfully complete first manual space docking

Last Updated: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 12:09

Chinese astronauts today successfully completed the country`s first-ever manual space docking.

Chinese astronauts get first e-mail from earth

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 18:29

Three Chinese astronauts, including the country`s first woman cosmonaut currently orbiting in the space lab module `Tiangong-1` received their first e-mail from Earth today.

Nasa `space drink` can reverse signs of ageing?

Last Updated: Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:04

A `space drink` developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the telltale signs of ageing.

Astronauts to land on `planet killer` asteroid

Last Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012, 14:46

NASA is training a team of astronauts to land on asteroids, which are three million miles from the Earth.

Soyuz spaceship blasts off for ISS

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 10:23

Three astronauts, two Russians and an American blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz spaceship on Tuesday.

NASA trains astronauts `for asteroid mission`

Last Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 15:19

NASA is reportedly training a team of astronauts for a mission to land on an asteroid by the end of the next decade.

Mars astronauts may be risking DNA damage

Last Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012, 21:42

Future astronauts working on the Red Planet`s surface risk general changes in health at the DNA level because of an increased radiation exposure, a prominent Russian academic has said.

China launches space drug laboratory

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:06

China has set up a laboratory to conduct research on medicines for astronauts during space missions, the science and technology ministry said.

Soon, dead stars `may guide astronauts across the Universe`

Last Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012, 14:41

These dense, burnt-out stars rotate rapidly, sweeping their emission across the cosmos at rates that are so stable they rival atomic clock performance.