China's Shenzhou-13 spacecraft docks for 6-month mission

[TexasTowelie]

BEIJING (AP) — China's Shenzhou-13 spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts docked Saturday at its space station, kicking off a record-setting six-month stay as the country moves toward completing the new orbiting outpost.

The spacecraft was launched by a Long March-2F rocket at 12:23 a.m. Saturday and docked with the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station at 6:56 a.m., approximately six and a half hours later.

The three astronauts entered the Tianhe space station core module at about 10 a.m., the China Manned Space Agency said.

The two men and one woman are the second crew to move into the space station, which was launched last April. The first crew stayed three months.

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(Killeen Daily Herald)

[OhZone]

1. Wow! It's pretty advanced. ha

[TexasTowelie]

2. Well, the stories about the Chinese stealing technology have been around for awhile.

Cool with me since I'm a Star Trek fan.

[Moebym]

3. Chinese steal everything, don't they? Har har har.

When Chinese successfully send people into space, they must have stolen the technology because there's no way a nation of 1.4 billion could have developed their own talent that was capable of coming up with the technology independently. (BTW, China is superior to the United States when it comes STEM education.)

When any other country does the same, there's nothing but praise.

I see how it is.

[Irish_Dem]

4. China has a very good chance of becoming the dominant space power in the 21st century.

And it will be highly militarized.