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Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country's space station on Sunday, the Chinese space agency for human flights said, the latest stride in Beijing's aim to become a major space power.  The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at 0244 GMT from the Jiuquan launch center in northwestern China's Gobi desert, reported state broadcaster CCTV.The team is tasked with "completing in-orbit assembly and construction of the space station", as well as "commissioning of equipment" and conducting scientific experiments,…

China on Saturday unveiled a three-member astronaut crew that will travel by the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country's space station currently orbiting the earth. The Shenzhou-14 spacecraft carrying astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe will dock with the Tiangong space station currently under construction, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Saturday.The Shenzhou-14 spaceship will be launched with a Long March-2F carrier rocket on Sunday from the…

Four scoundrels band together to survive 40K During today’s annual Warhammer festival Skulls, developer Fatshark premiered a new trailer for its upcoming co-op action game Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. It looks grim, dark, and grimy. Pretty much what’d you expect in a Warhammer 40K setting. As humanity struggles to fight back against the tides of Chaos, criminals are rounded up and sent into the fray. These Inquisition forces are basically the Suicide Squad in 40K. But you and three friends will need to touch down on the…

Land Rover gave the Defender 90 and 110 sizes when it first introduced the new coming of its iconic 4x4 a few years ago. A longer 130 model has long been in the works, and it made its global debut this week, adding some extra size and passenger capacity to Land Rover's most capable nameplate. More than just extra size, the Defender 130 is a luxurious, uniquely equipped SUV with standard air suspension, quad-zone climate control, and the new Defender's near-bombproof, go-anywhere construction. The Defender's number…

NASA astronauts (from left) Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines are pictured inside the International Space Station’s seven-windowed cupola monitoring the approach and rendezvous of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Credit: NASAThe Expedition 67 crew continued its ongoing human research on Friday, May 27, 2022, with ultrasound eye exams and blood flow measurements in the brain. The orbital residents also explored robotics and space navigation techniques.The four astronauts…

Image via Lucasfilm Lucasfilm has finally unveiled Jon Watts’ secret Star Wars series. Titled Skeleton Crew, the series will star Jude Law in an unspecified role and take place during the New Republic era. Rumors of a Jon Watts-led project in the galaxy far, far away had been circulating for a while, though fans had nothing else to go on besides scattered hearsay. Now, during today’s Star Wars Celebration 2022, the Spider-Man: No Way Home director took to the stage to reveal that he’s indeed working on a Star…

The Star Wars universe on Disney Plus continues to expand with the official reveal of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which stars Jude Law and is coming to the streaming service in 2023. Announced during Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, the series is a coming-of-age tale set in the sci-fi universe. In addition to Law, it will also star “kids,” though we don’t know who they will be just yet. It’s led by director Jon Watts and writer Chris Ford, who previously collaborated on Spider-Man: Homecoming, and produced by Jon…

NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Kjell Lindgren greet “Rosie the Rocketeer” inside the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after opening its hatch. Credit: NASAAstronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) opened the hatch for the first time to Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at 12:04 p.m. EDT Saturday, May 21, on its uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2).Starliner launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on a flight test to the International Space Station at 6:54 p.m. on Thursday, May 19,…

An airline in Saudi Arabia has completed the country’s first flight with an all-female crew, officials said Saturday, framing it as a milestone for women’s empowerment in the conservative kingdom. The flight operated by flyadeal, budget subsidiary of flag carrier Saudia, was from the capital Riyadh to the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Thursday, flyadeal spokesman Emad Iskandarani said. The “majority” of the seven-member crew were Saudi women, including the first officer, but not the captain, who was a foreign woman,…

Having now gone zero-for-three in the space of 10 years when it comes to delivering reboots that were intended to launch brand new trilogies, the jury is out on whether or not the Terminator franchise deserves a place at the Hollywood top table. We’ll be getting another one eventually, though, but the least we can hope for is that it turns out better than Genisys. The worst-reviewed installment by far, the fifth entry in the cybernetic series was only saved from outright commercial disaster by a strong showing at…