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Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming salute before the launch of the Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and the three astronauts, from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for China's first manned mission to build its space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Chinese astronauts board space station module in historic mission

China's space station, due to be finished by end-2022, will be the only alternative to the two-decade-old, US-led International Space Station (ISS), which may be retired in 2024

Ji Qiming, Assistant Director General of China Manned Space Agency speaks during a news conference before the Shenzhou-12 mission to build China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province, China June 16, 2021. Photo: Reuters

China to send three astronauts to space, including its oldest

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What do astronauts eat?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Astronauts leave ISS, begin return journey to Earth on SpaceX craft

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Kathleen Rubins of NASA reacts shortly after the landing of the Soyuz MS-17 space capsule in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan April 17, 2021. NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS

Three astronauts return from International Space Station

Analog Astronauts of OeWF, Inigo Munoz and Carmen Kohler test the Moon Robot named 'Puli Rover' at the Kaunertaler Glacier, Austria, August 3, 2015. Picture taken August 3, 2015. Claudia Stix/OeWF via REUTERS

Want to be an astronaut? Europe is recruiting for the first time in 11 years

Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on US mission around the moon

Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on US mission around the moon

An astronaut’s return to a locked earth

An astronaut’s return to a locked earth

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after record mission

NASA astronaut Christina Koch services the BioFabrication Facility (BFF) at the International Space Station. The BFF is a 3D biological printer that manufactures organ-like tissues in microgravity.

NASA astronaut celebrates her 300th day in space