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China's Shenzhou 11 docks at Tiangong 2 space station

Accepted submission by fritsd at 2016-10-19 09:35:35
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BBC News reports [bbc.com] that the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft with two taikonauts has successfully docked with China's second space station (their first station, Tiangong-1, was also recently in the news [bbc.com], because it is dropping from orbit).

More links:
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/10-19/230722.shtml [www.ecns.cn]

I'm curious why they have only 2 crew this time instead of 3. Maybe they needed the extra space for the food experiments? [www.ecns.cn]


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