China will be sending three of its astronauts for a three-month mission on its first space station, which is currently under construction. The Shenzhou 12 capsule carrying the crew will be launched from the Jiuquan base in China's northwest next month. The astronauts will practice spacewalks ...

ISLAMABAD - - Pakistan and India have entered a new space race. Pakistan has decided to move its competition with India to a parallel hurl as it decided to send a human into space... in the exact year that India resolute to do the same with help of Russia. Fawad Chuadhry, Information minister ...

*ISLAMABAD - In as first, Pakistan has planned to send astronauts to space with China's help and assistance.* *As per the media report, Pakistan has decided to send its astronauts on a space mission with assistance of China.* The decision to this regard will be taken during the Federal ...

A Japanese and an American astronaut floated for hours outside the International Space Station last Friday (Feb 16) on a spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's robotic arm and move some equipment into storage. The spacewalk, broadcast live on NASA TV, was the first for Japanese Aerospace Agency ...

BEIJING - China will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country’s planned space station, according to Monday’s China Daily. Yang Liwei, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency and the first Chinese astronaut in space, was quoted as ...

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman has announced that Pakistan will be able to send astronauts into space with the collaboration of China in the next two years.He was addressing the inauguration session of AirTech’17 conference, hosted by Air University in Islamabad on Thursday, according to a ...

Dubai: Dubai's ruler on Wednesday launched the United Arab Emirates' first space programme aimed at sending four Emirati astronauts to the International Space Station within five years."On this day, a new chapter in our history begins with the launch of the first UAE Astronaut Programme," within ...

WASHINGTON: Two NASA astronauts embarked on a spacewalk Thursday to repair the International Space Station´s ageing robotic arm, the US space agency said.The outing by Americans Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei began at 8:05 am (1205 GMT) when the duo switched their bulky white spacesuits to ...

MIAMI: NASA on Friday launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth.The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape ...

MIAMI: (APP) The US space agency said Friday it is considering putting astronauts on an upcoming test flight of the deep space capsule Orion as it aims to orbit the Moon. Orion is being built with an eye to one day ferrying astronauts to Earth's neighboring planet, Mars, perhaps by the 2030s. ...