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Mon, 2011-11-07 20:39
The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft joined the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module about 340 km (211 miles) above Earth, in a maneuver carried live on state television in the early hours of the morning.
Video images from China's CCTV showed the docking of the Shenzhou 8 craft that was launched on Nov. 1, 2011 with the already orbiting Tiangong 1 module in the early morning of Nov. 3, 2011.
The two unmanned Chinese spacecraft docked successfully and were orbiting the Earth together in a step that moves China closer to manning its own space station in about a decade.
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