Three Chinese astronauts dock with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with three-member crew already onboard
Tiangong space station is the crown jewel of Beijing's ambitious space programme — which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and Moon and made country the third to put humans in orbit.
They then joined three other astronauts who had been aboard the Tiangong space station since early June.The mission's main responsibilities were "achieving the first crew handover in orbit, installing... equipment and facilities inside and outside the space station, and carrying out scientific experiments," said CMSA spokesman Ji Qiming.
"I expect that China will declare construction completion during or at the end of the Shenzhou-15 mission," independent Chinese space analyst Chen Lan said.
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