Thursday, June 13, 2013

The crew of the spaceship "Shenzhou-10" went into the orbital module - Reuters

BEIJING, June 13 – RIA Novosti, Oleg Ostroukhov. The crew members of Chinese spacecraft “Shenzhou-10″ entered the orbital module “Tiangong-1″, to which the ship docked earlier Thursday, transmit Chinese media.

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Tuesday, June 11, China has launched a manned spacecraft “Shenzhou-10″ with a crew of three people – two men (not Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang) and women (Wang Yaping). Docking “Shenzhou-10″ module “Tiangong-1″ occurred in the automatic mode and was completed in 9.18 MSK.

astronauts opened the hatch to the airlock module at 12.17 MSK. The crew of the “Shenzhou-10″ has moved from the spacecraft at the direction of the Beijing Center for Space Operations after an MCC have once again checked the situation on board the “Tiangong-1″. Chinese astronauts will conduct a series of scientific experiments and testing equipment. Flight program, “Shenzhou-10″, which will last 15 days, provides another docked with the orbital module is in manual mode.

Program of China on space exploration started Oct. 8, 1956. In April 1970, China put into orbit the first artificial earth satellite “Dongfanghong-1″ (“East Is Red-1″). The first space flight of Chinese astronaut took place at a manned spacecraft “Shenzhou-5″ in October 2003. The first output of Chinese astronaut into space occurred in late September 2008 during the mission spacecraft “Shenzhou-6″. China’s first woman in space – 33-year-old Chinese Air Force Major Liu Yang – were in space in 2012 on board the ship “Shenzhou-9″.

China plans to build 2020 on orbit own space station and a space laboratory.

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