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Recession slows space industry
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | 8 months ago
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The global space industry has suffered along with the rest of the world economy but still managed to grow nearly 2.5 percent last year, according to The Space Report 2009. The report was released Monday by the Space Foundation on the opening day of the...
Tags: U.S. Space Foundation, China, space industry, global space, manned space, achievement award, space program, space flight, space achievement
Runnin' Late? That's 'Obama Time'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Barely two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama has made a clean break from George W. Bush in several high-profile moves, including reversing a number of the 43rd president's policies. He's also reversed an unwritten but much-noticed Bush policy:...
Tags: obama, Barack Obama, manned space, George W. Bush
Astronauts touch down in Hong Kong
Hong Kong :: China | 11 months ago
Credibility The astronauts of the Shenzhou VII manned space mission arrived in Hong Kong on Friday morning for a four-day visit, offering words of encouragement to local people as they grapple with the impact of the global economic slowdown. Led by Zhang Jianqi,...
Tags: space, Hong Kongers, Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong International Airport, allnews, China, manned space, space mission, Administration Henry Tang, Shenzhou VII
Spacewalking astronauts visit HK
Beijing :: China | 12 months ago
Credibility China successfully put Zhai Zhigang into outer space for 20 minutes this September with the Shenzhou VII spacecraft, which means "divine vessels" in English.
Tags: space, china, South China, news, allnews, manned space, Russian
China awards outstanding people in spacewalk mission
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility China held a meeting Friday morning to award people who made outstanding contributions to the Shenzhou VII manned space flight. Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and...
Tags: Communist Party of China, manned space, space flight, china honored, Shenzhou VII, Zhai Zhigang, communist parties
Living conditions inside Shenzhou-7
Shanghai :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Shenzhou-7 Manned Space Flight The world witnessed China's third manned space mission last week. But what helped make the Shenzhou 7 crew feel comfortable during their tour of space?...The temperature can get as high as 100 degrees Celsius when sunshine...
Tags: space, manned space
Shenzhou VII spaceship lands safely
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility China's Shenzhou VII spacecraft carrying three astronauts landed safely by parachute on Sunday afternoon in China's northern grassland, the mission ground control center announced. Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng, came back from...
Tags: chinese astronauts, North China, Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang, Beijing, manned space, astronauts returned, premier wen, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Wen Jiabao
China begins final countdown to spacewalk mission
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province of Gansu began the countdown at 1:10 pm (0510 GMT), state media said. The start of the countdown put the mission on course for its previously announced launch time of 9:10 pm (1310 GMT), although...
Tags: chinese astronauts, its third manned space mission, spaceship, China, news, manned space, space mission, Wang Zhaoyao, vehicular activity
Shenzhou VII lifts off tonight
Jiuquan :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Shenzhou VII will lift off between 9:07 pm and 10:27 pm Thursday, carrying three astronauts, one of who will become the first Chinese to walk in space, senior space program officials said Wednesday. One of the astronauts, Zhai Zhigang will walk in space...
Tags: space, China, chinese astronauts, Shenzhou VII, manned space, Gansu Province, U.S, Chinese, space program, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Experts dismiss concerns over manned space program
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cui said Chinese scientists saw the manned space program as a scientific exploration and hoped it could help boost China's overall scientific level and innovation capability. Cui did not disclose what scientific experiments Chinese taikonauts (astronauts)...
Tags: space, china, First Spacewalk China, space mission, Shenzhou VII, manned space, space walk
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