The Latest Breaking News from Tiangong

Three astronauts, including the first Chinese civilian to go to space, will spend six months on the Tiangong.

JIUQUAN (CHINA) - China will send three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian scientist into space for the first time as Beijing pursues plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade.

China's next crew of three astronauts is all set to launch for the country's Tiangong space station tonight (May 29) on a Long March 2F rocket and you can watch it live.

China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station tomorrow

Payload expert Gui Haichao will set off for the Tiangong space station as part of a three-person mission on Tuesday.

China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on May 10, sending clothing, food, water and propellant toward the country's Tiangong space station.

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have been testing out ways to convert heat into electrical power.

Components of the Long March 7 rocket that will launch the Tianzhou 6 cargo mission arrived at southern China's Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on April 13.

China's Shenzhou 15 astronauts have completed the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month-long mission.

China's Shenzhou 15 astronauts completed their third spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station in late March under a cloud of secrecy.

China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station