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Chinese astronauts manually dock spacecraft
Beijing (AFP) June 23, 2013
Three Chinese astronauts on the country's longest manned space mission on Sunday succeeded in manually docking their spacecraft with a module orbiting Earth, state media said. Docking techniques are a crucial element of China's space programme, which aims to build a station orbiting the planet by 2020. The Shenzhou-10 - "Divine Vessel" - was piloted by mission commander Nie Haisheng, assisted by astronauts Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, China's second woman in space, according to the Xinhua ... read more

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