astronaut

astronaut

Astronauts Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan, and Lai Ka-ying, who is the first astronaut from Hong Kong, gesture as they attend a press conference before the Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission to China's Tiangong space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, May 23, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

China sends astronaut on year-long space mission as it eyes 2030 moon landing

The Shenzhou-23 vessel launched at 11:08 pm (1508 GMT) using the Long March-2F Y23 carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, with three Chinese astronauts on board

Astronauts Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan, and Lai Ka-ying, who is the first astronaut from Hong Kong, gesture as they attend a press conference before the Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission to China's Tiangong space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, May 23, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

China to send astronaut on year-long space mission as it eyes 2030 moon landing

Photo: BSS

China set for latest space launch, with Hong Kong astronaut aboard

Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna/TBS Creative

After 54 years, astronauts are going back to the moon

Photo: Collected

NASA delays astronaut moon mission again due to new rocket issue

Illustration: Duniya Jahan/ TBS

Forget Katy Perry, here’s Bangladesh’s Ruthba Yasmin shooting for the moon

The ISS may be on a precarious orbit just above politics and terrestrial strife, but it’s still up there, seeing 16 sunrises a day. Photo: Reuters

New 'Superbug' detected on the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Frank Borman in an undated photo. Borman served as the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the world. Courtesy NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Former US astronaut Frank Borman dies at 95

FILE PHOTO: The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this undated NASA handout photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program in 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout/File Photo

Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age

Photo: Collected

US astronaut gets used to Earth after record-setting 371 days in space

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara board the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, September 15, 2023. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS

Two Russians, American reach space station

Photo: Collected

Three Chinese astronauts return safely to Earth

FILE PHOTO: Commander Peggy Whitson, pilot John Shoffner, and mission specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi representing Saudi Arabia pose before the planned Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) launch to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US 21 May, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Private astronaut crew, including first Arab woman in orbit, returns from space station