Flight controllers soon realized that the 100-ton space laboratory was in trouble.

China has launched its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.

The work of any European astronauts and the Japanese space laboratory is being coordinated by others in Germany and Japan.

The run from Earth was short, for the space laboratory wasn't far away at the moment as interplanetary distances go.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a video call to three of his country's astronauts aboard the orbiting Tiangong space laboratory.

China has launched its latest manned space mission, taking two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard an experimental space laboratory.

The US space shuttle Atlantis this afternoon docked with the international space station on its mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory there.

Reagan had used his January 1984 State of the Union Address to launch (in a bureaucratic sense, at least) the manned space laboratory.

He had only himself to blame, for Dr Harkness had tried, in his ineffectual way, to outline the benefits that a space laboratory might bring.

The capsule is en route to the ISS and is expected to dock with the space laboratory at approximately 13:00 on Sunday, 3 March.