{"id":4007,"date":"2016-10-26T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/shenzhou-11-spacecraft-docks-with-tiangong-2-space-lab\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:07:52","slug":"shenzhou-11-spacecraft-docks-with-tiangong-2-space-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/shenzhou-11-spacecraft-docks-with-tiangong-2-space-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhou-11 Spacecraft Docks with Tiangong-2 Space Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) &#8212; The Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft successfully completed its automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab at 3:31 a.m. Wednesday Beijing Time, according to Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC).<\/p>\n<p >Shenzhou-11, which was launched Monday morning from northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert, began to approach Tiangong-2 automatically at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday and made contact with the space lab at 3:24 a.m..<\/p>\n<p >The rendezvous took place in the orbit about 393 kilometers above Earth.<\/p>\n<p >The two astronauts aboard Shenzhou-11, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, monitored and reported on the docking operation, relaying their findings to the control center.<\/p>\n<p >According to the mission schedule, once they enter the space module, the astronauts will stay there for 30 days.<\/p>\n<p >Shenzhou-11, China&#8217;s sixth manned spacecraft, will undertake the longest-ever space mission in the country. The two astronauts will spend a total of 33 days in space.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2 was sent into space on Sept. 15. It is hailed as China&#8217;s first space lab &#8220;in the strict sense&#8221; and a key step in building a permanent space station, which the country aims to accomplish by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) &#8212; The Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft successfully completed its automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab at 3:31 a.m. Wednesday Beijing Time, according to Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC). Shenzhou-11, which was launched Monday morning from northwest China&#8217;s Gobi Desert, began to approach Tiangong-2 automatically at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday and made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}