China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.

China just unveiled the three astronauts set to launch aboard Shenzhou 20 to the Tiangong space station on April 24.

The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, atop the Long March-2F carrier rocket on 5:17 pm on Thursday, carrying taikonauts Chen Dong, ...

A Long March 2F rocket, topped with the Shenzhou 20 crew spacecraft, was rolled out to its launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday (April 16), according to Chinese state media.

View from Shenzhou-20 spacecraft showing the docking interface with the Tiangong space station on April 24, 2025. Credit: CMSEO HELSINKI — Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the Tiangong space ...

China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited Tiangong space station on Thursday in its 15th crewed spaceflight and 20th overall in its Shenzhou program, which started more than three ...

This simulated image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on April 24, 2025 shows the Shenzhou-20 manned spaceship successfully docked with the space station's core module ...

China is set to launch its Shenzhou-20 mission that will carry three astronauts to the Chinese space station Tiangong at 5.17 p.m. on Thursday (0917 GMT), state media said on Wednesday.

China's latest human spaceflight mission headed for orbit on Thursday morning (April 24). A Long March 2F rocket topped with the Shenzhou 20 crew spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite ...

China Launches Shenzhou-20 Mission to Chinese Space Station, State Media Report BEIJING (Reuters) -China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station on Thursday in its 15th ...

who have been living aboard Tiangong since October — greeted the three Shenzhou 20 astronauts inside Tiangong around 90 minutes later, once the hatch between the spacecraft and space station was ...

A Long March 2F rocket topped with the Shenzhou 20 crew spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on April 24 at 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 GMT; 5:17 p.m. Beijing ...