China's Shenzhou XIII crewed spacecraft docks with the Tiangong space station in the morning of Oct 16, 2021, with astronauts ready to enter the station to start a six-month journey. - Xinhua
BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): China's Shenzhou XIII crewed spacecraft docked with the Tiangong space station on Saturday (Oct 16) morning, with three astronauts entering the station to start a six-month journey.
The craft docked with the station's core module, named Tianhe, or Harmony of Heavens, at 6:56am, about six and a half hours after a rendezvous process by their spacecraft, the China Manned Space Agency said in a brief statement, adding that the entire rendezvous and docking operations were controlled by computers.
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