With veteran Ye Guangfu, 43, at the controls of the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft, flanked by rookies Li Cong, 34, and Li Guangsu, 36, the Long March 2F rocket roared to life at 8:59 a.m. EDT (8:59 p.m ...

A crew of three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission took off on a rocket bound for the Tiangong space station ...

Shenzhou 18 is poised to launch on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China on Thursday (April 25) and head to China’s Tiangong space station. The mission's crew were ...

The mission is China's first manned mission to the space station this year, the third since the space station entered ...

The rocket carried the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit. The Shenzhou spacecraft separated from its launch vehicle 10 minutes into the flight, prompting the China ...

The Shenzhou-18 launch is the latest in a series rotating taikonauts, as China calls its space explorers (the Chinese word ...

The three-member crew of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft will relieve the current team who have been manning China’s Tiangong space station since last October. China built its own space station after ...

The latest Shenzhou-18 mission to the space station will be led by Ye Guangfu, 43. China launched its first uncrewed spacecraft, Shenzhou-1, in November 1999. Three more unmanned flights followed ...

China's space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030. The three-member ...