Three Chinese astronauts will likely return safely to Earth after a reported space-junk strike. But the incident highlights ...
The Shenzhou 20 crew is led by commander Chen Dong, a veteran astronaut and former Chinese fighter pilot on his third trip to space. Two spaceflight rookies, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, are also ...
Years of spatial exploration have left the outer atmosphere cluttered with countless pieces of metal and debris, and experts ...
They are not the first to be stuck in space, and, if space junk has anything to do with it, they won't be the last.
The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station in April 2025.
All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...