Yang Liwei interacts with young students during an activity in Beijing on Monday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of China's first manned space flight.XU JINGXING/CHINA DAILY China's next-generation rocket to carry astronauts is expected to be ready for its maiden flight around 2027, according...
Analysis: Manned space flight: next stepsMELISSA BLOCK
The first flight test of NASA's new manned spacecraft may be six months away, but agency engineers are already looking forward to what they will learn from the trial. NASA's Orion capsule, which is designed to take astronauts to Mars and other farflung destinations, will blast into space ...
While development flight testing will have just begun at the time this paper is submitted, a number of significant design decisions relative to the architecture for the manned spacecraft will have been completed. This paper will present ... ...
China's new-generation crewed spacecraft is expected to make its maiden flight around 2027 and 2028, according to a leader of the country's manned space program. Yang Liwei, the first Chinese in space and a deputy chief planner of the nation's manned spaceflights, told a science teachers'...
The source told Interfax that the Soyuz TMA-04M vessel had not withstood tests to its pressure chamber ahead of the planned mission on March 30 and the first flight would be postponed to mid-April or the first half of May. "This re-entry capsule now cannot be used for manned spacefligh...
The next target for the US manned space programme? The current hiatus in Space Shuttle missions following the Columbia disaster provides a convenient opportunity to reflect on the future direction for the US manned space flight programme. Given the huge amount of resources devoted to con... M Ri...
On August 3 by a com-pany called, appropriately enough, Transformational Space Corporation, or t/Space, could signal a whole new direction for NASA, one with the potential to put the agency's manned space program back on track more quickly and affordably than its primary plan can do alone ...
said the new heavy-lift rocket 43 (intend)for the country's future manned spaceflights, 44 will be carried out by a new-generation spaceship, and manned lunar explorations that Chinese 45 (scientist) have been planning for a long time.36.designer37.to place38.g first39.with40.currently41...
Manned space flight, most complicated and difficult aerospace project, demonstrates a nation's scientific research and economic strength, he said. "It's a major means to expand human living space and tap and use space resources." The China Aerospace Science Corp (CASC), designer and manufacturer...