Three Chinese astronauts manually docked their space capsule at an orbiting module Sunday (June 24), a major first for China's space program and the country's plans to build a large space station. The ...

The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft manually linked with the Tiangong-1 module just over a week into a manned space mission which includes China's first female astronaut, following an automatic docking on ...

Three Chinese astronauts will return to Tiangong-1 lab module from Shenzhou IX spacecraft hours after a manual docking procedure finished, to continue experiments and researches in space. A screen at ...

A Chinese spacecraft successfully completed the country's first manual docking in orbit on Sunday, June 24, the official Xinhua news agency said, a milestone in an ambitious programe to build a space ...

More than half way through their mission, the crew of Shenzhou-9 have accomplished another major flight objective, as the spacecraft successfully conducted the manual docking test with the unmanned ...

Soyuz TMA-5 commander Salizhan Sharipov, a Russian air force colonel, smoothly switched to manual control during final approach to dock with the International Space Station Oct. 16, when the Kurs ...

Three Chinese astronauts on June 24 successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, the first such attempt in China's history of space ...