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Chinese astronaut wannabes can't have bad body odour, cavities

In addition to all the rigorous physical requirements and demands placed on those entering China’s space program, those wannabes with bad breath, body odor or runny noses have been banned from training. Read on, but hold that sneeze.

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Chinese space program 'on the rise'

The retirement of NASA's shuttle fleet and a number of recent failures in the Russian space program have focused attention on China's space program, which now has three manned flights under its belt.

SpaceX to launch 1st private rocket to space station

For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.

Space train could shoot tourists into low orbit at low cost

Those who dream of becoming a space tourist may want to pay attention to a new program that would send a high-speed train into orbit at a fraction of the cost of travelling by rocket.

NASA Reevaluates Mars Program

While sci-fi movie junkies are reeling over the recent NASA image in which a structure that resembles the monolith seen in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” protrudes off the surface of Mars, NASA announced today its search for alternative, cheaper ways to continue Mars...

Photos: Anniversary of NASA's Worst Tragedies

Late January is always a dark time of year for NASA's astronaut program; the anniversaries of its three worst accidents all happen in the same week. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a cockpit fire on Jan. 27, 1967. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. And the space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth Feb. 1, 2003.