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Students pay tribute to astronauts with handmade water rocket

Chinese space engineers have conducted the first ignition test of the most powerful solid-propellant rocket engine in the world, which will be used on new-generation rockets, according to the Academy of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology in Xian, Shaanxi province.

South Korea’s first domestically developed satellite launch vehicle moved to launch pad

Russias latest space mission had some unusual passengers - an actress and a film director who are set to make the worlds first feature-length movie shot in space.

A rocket struck a house in a populated residential area, west of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing two adults and four children.

VAN HORN, Texas - Jeff Bezos rocketed past the edge of space Tuesday, launching from the improbable spaceport he has built in the West Texas desert here and fulfilling the lifelong dream of a die-hard Trekkie who was transfixed by the Apollo 11 moon landing and has pledged to use his fortune to open space for the masses.

China on Thursday successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, which is expected to send three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission.

A couple of weeks after Jeff Bezos officially steps down as CEO of Amazon, hell leap into something more mythic: riding to the edge of space aboard one of his own rockets, alongside his brother, in a flight that would fulfill a lifelong dream.

Gaza Strip militants fired rockets toward the Jerusalem area and southern Israel on Monday as weeks of confrontations between Israel and the Palestinians exploded on the day Israel celebrated its control over the contested city.

The hulk of the Chinese Long March rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere around 10:30 p.m. Eastern time and some debris landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, China’s Manned Space Engineering Office reported late Saturday night, ending days of international speculation. There were no immediate reports of damage from falling debris.

A large Chinese rocket booster is plunging back to Earth and expected to reenter the atmosphere sometime this weekend, prompting international concern over where it may land.

The 20-tonne chunk of Chinese space junk due to crash to Earth this weekend has a slim chance of falling on Thailand, the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) said on Friday.