Taikonauts to take traditional Chinese medicines in Shenzhou-7 spaceflight BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's Shenzhou-7 astronauts will take traditional Chinese medicine in their spaceflight to treat motion sickness, doctor with the astronauts training center said on Thursday.

China space officials have announced the names of three astronauts who will carry out the country’s third manned space mission.

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) JIUQUAN, Northwest China, June 28 (Xinhua) - Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, the crew of Shenzhou spacecraft 6, carried the Olympic flame Saturday in the torch relay at the "Dongfeng Space City" in northwest China's Gansu province.

Chinese taikonaut dismisses environment worries about new space launch center HAIKOU, Jan.

Yang Liwei, China's first taikonaut, the Chinese term for astronaut, on Saturday dismissed worries about the environmental effects of a new space launch centre to be built in the island province of Hainan, saying the launches will be non- toxic and do no harm to the local ecology.