China Completes 2nd Docking To Space Lab And Sets Path To Manned Flights In 2012
Photo taken on Nov. 14, 2011 shows the image of Shenzhou-8 spacecraft on the electronic screen in the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, in Beijing, China. The image was shot by a video camera on Tiangong-1 just after Shenzhou-8′s separation from Tiangong-1. China’s Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft successfully re-docked with the Tiangong-1, a module of the country’s planned space lab on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 Credit: Xinhua/Wang Jianmin
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Chinese space prowess took another major leap forward today (Nov. 14) when the unmanned Shenzhou-8 capsule successfully re-docked with China’s Tiangong-1 space lab while speeding through space and orbiting some 343 km above Earth. Today’s events pave the way for China to rapidly ramp up their human space program and loft up to two manned flights to the space lab module in 2012.
The re-docking marked only the 2nd time that China had accomplished a successful space docking, a critical technical milestone that opens the door to China’s real ambition of assembling a 100 ton operational Space Station in low Earth orbit by 2020 – about the time when the ISS might be decommissioned. (…)
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