The Tiangong space station’s latest crew went from routine mission to high-stakes drama when a cloud of orbital debris forced China to postpone their planned return to Earth. For several tense days, ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts stranded at their nation’s space station after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris departed for home Friday using the craft that had brought a ...

A crack, likely caused by space debris, in the Shenzhou-20 return capsule's window glass rendered it unsafe for manned reentry, necessitating an alternative return procedure. The Chinese Manned Space ...

China conducted an urgent unmanned spacecraft launch on Tuesday, after damage to a previous mission's return capsule left the crew on its space station without a means of getting back to Earth. The ...

The damage to a previous mission’s return capsule left the crew on its space station without a means of getting back to Earth. A Long March-2F rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. China on ...