The phrase US-China space race describes real, ongoing competition in crewed lunar exploration, space stations, satellite navigation and launch reusability. NA…
Yang Liwei orbited Earth aboard Shenzhou 5, making China the third country - after the Soviet Union and the United States - to independently launch a human into orbit.
A US legislative provision bars NASA from using federal funds for bilateral cooperation with China unless Congress specifically authorizes it. It restricts formal cooper…
Chang'e 4 became the first spacecraft to land, intact and operating, on the Moon's far side. The Queqiao relay satellite, launched months earlier, enabled communications…
Tianhe, the core module of Tiangong, launched aboard a Long March 5B. Full assembly with additional modules and crew rotations continued over the following 18 months.
NASA launched the uncrewed Artemis I mission, sending Orion around the Moon and back to test the SLS rocket, Orion's heat shield and deep-space systems ahead of crewed f…
China's Chang'e 6 mission collected and returned 1,935.3 grams of lunar material from the far side - the first far-side sample return in history, confirmed by CNSA on 28…
Chang'e 7 launched toward the lunar south pole (Aug 2026 window) to search for water ice. NASA's February 2026 restructuring redefined Artemis III as a 2027 orbital demo…
Artemis III is planned as a low-Earth-orbit demonstration: an Orion-launched crew rendezvouses and docks with commercial lander prototypes from SpaceX and Blue Origin, a…
NASA targets early 2028 for the first Artemis crewed lunar landing, on the mission designated Artemis IV, after crew transfer from Orion to a commercial human landing sy…
China's stated goal is to land two astronauts on the Moon before 2030, using the Long March 10 rocket to launch the Mengzhou spacecraft and Lanyue lander separately, doc…
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