It commemorates the launch of the Spacecraft Mariner 4 on November 28,1964.
The core module will be sent by a Long March-5B Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, at a handover ceremony for the return capsule of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft in Shaoshan, Central China's Hunan province.
The lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft separated from its orbiter-returner combination at 4:40 am Monday, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:27 pm EST Sunday, from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The administration said in a statement that the spacecraft was in good condition.
For decades, the unreleased photos were kept in the archives of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, and could only be accessed by accredited researchers.
Kate Rubins, for example, is scheduled to launch to the orbiting space lab on Oct 14 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and will vote in space for the second time.
The robotic spacecraft ran its four 120-Newton thrusters for 20 seconds at around 11 pm after receiving control signals from its ground controllers, the administration said in a statement on Monday morning.
During the daytime, the new Marina Bay Sands store appears to look like an odd spacecraft of some sort or perhaps some form of futuristic theater.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon(4), is financing an attempt to build a low-cost reusable spacecraft that can carry people into space.
China says it has successfully landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, the first ever such attempt and landing.
Another data set preoccupied astronomer Anthony Brown, whose team coordinated the release of a massive trove of information from the Gaia spacecraft, which has tracked more than a billion stars.
This new approach from BAS has drawn on imagery from the WorldView-3 spacecraft operated by the American company DigitalGloble.
ASA's Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the sun than any spacecraft has ever gotten.
It will become the second manmade object to leave our solar system following its sister spacecraft Voyage 1, which did so in 2012.
The object was spotted in data from Nasa's Kepler spacecraft, and later observed using the Hubble telescope.
The two small "rovers", which were despatched from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft last Friday, will move around the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu.
Soon after the Indian feat, Nasa crashed a spacecraft into the 100km-wide Cabeus crater which is in permanent shade on the moon's south pole.
The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, "1""2", which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour.
Houston, your city of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, ,,, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community.
