China’s Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft docks with Tiangong space station
Beijing, November 30, 2022, 03:05 — REGNUM The Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou-15 has successfully docked with the main module of China’s Tiangong space station, the press service of China’s Manned Space Flight Program Office said.
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The device was launched from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome with a CZ-2F launch vehicle. The flight to the station lasted approximately six and a half hours. Astronauts aboard Shenzhou 15 Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu.
It is noted that for the first time in the history of the country, rotation at the station will be carried out in orbit in the presence of both crews.
As reported IA REGNUMOn November 17, astronauts from the Shenzhou-14 mission went out into space for the third time to carry out work outside the station.
Read earlier in this story: Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou-14 went into outer space for the third time
Background
The US was the first on the moon. This happened on July 20, 1969.
After the collapse of the USSR, Russia began to lose ground in the space industry. In 2016, the Federal Space Program was introduced, which by 2025 is designed to improve the current state of affairs.
Currently, China is strengthening its position in the space industry, between 1990 and 2012, China launched 43 satellites into orbit, and since 2010 it has been producing more space launches than the United States, second only to Russia.
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