China successfully launched three astronauts into space on Thursday, bringing the country one step closer to completing its new space station. The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, or Divine Vessel, was ...

Shenzhou 12 docked with Tianhe, the Chinese space station core module, early Thursday morning (June 17), about 6 1/2 hours after lifting off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

They'll share the station with Crew 6 for most of that time. Alneyadi, a father of six, is the second Emerati to fly in space but the first named to a full-duration six-month stay aboard the station.

The Soyuz MS-12 docking marked the second time in 11 days that a craft docked to the Space Station, with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon having previously docked to ISS on 3 March.

The two astronauts have been on at the International Space Station since last June after the ship they arrived in ... 2025, 07:55pm EDT Mar 12, 2025, 08 ... a two-man crew that ...

Three-man, one-woman crew flies ... the crew will strap in for real Thursday night and blast off from historic pad 39A at 12:04 a.m. Friday. ... Also on board the space station: ...

Shenzhou 12 crewmates Liu Boming (at top) and Tang Hongbo exit the Tianhe core module to perform the first spacewalk outside of China's space station on Saturday, July 3, 2021.

Three Shenzhou flights to small Tiangong space labs took place in 2012, 2013 and 2016—concurrent with permanent ISS habitation—as stepping stone missions towards the larger space station modules.

NASA indefinitely delayed a four-person crew's mission to the International Space Station on Thursday over an escalating probe into air leaks ... June 12, 2025 6:38 PM UTC Updated June 12, 2025 ...

Updated March 12, 2025 9:09 PM ET Originally published March 12, 2025 6:00 AM ET. ... "The mission of the space station… is something that we deeply believe in," added Wilmore.