BEIJING: A Chinese spacecraft carried out a manned docking with an experimental space module on Monday, the latest milestone in China’s ambitious effort to build a space station.
The Shenzhou 9 and its three-person crew, which includes China’s first woman in space, linked with the Tiangong 1 module just after 0600 GMT, in images carried live on state television.
The crew are expected to enter the module in a few hours, the official Xinhua news agency said, the first time China has been able to transfer astronauts between two orbiting craft.
Chinese astronauts in successful space docking test
