The Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou-13 with three astronauts on board successfully docked with the main compartment of the Tiangong orbital station of the PRC. This was reported by RIA Novosti, referring to the CGTN TV channel.
Zhai Zhigang arrived in orbit, who became the first Chinese to go into outer space in September 2008, female astronaut Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, for whom this flight will be the first in his career. After docking, the astronauts will be transferred to the Tianhe compartment, where they will spend at least 180 days. They will have to carry out work with the manipulator, as well as a number of scientific experiments and tasks within the framework of the station construction project.
Recall that the Changzheng-2F launch vehicle with the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft was launched at 19.23 Moscow time on Friday from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in the Gansu province in northwestern China. This is the second manned mission in the construction of the Chinese orbital station.
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