Sunday, October 16, 2016

China launches two crew members to Tiangong-2 Station

China successfully launched 2 crew members on their Shenzhou-11 rocket to the Tiangong-2 space lab for 30 days. The spacecraft will dock with the space station in 2 days and they will conduct experiments related to medicine and physics. The spacecraft will undock and land back to Earth 1 day after undocking. The landing is planned to occur on November 19th. This will mark another step forward for the countries goal of creating a permanent station in space by the 2020s. The full video of this launch can be viewed here.

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