{"id":5321,"date":"2012-06-19T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-first-manned-space-docking-successful\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:43:04","slug":"chinas-first-manned-space-docking-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-first-manned-space-docking-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s First Manned Space Docking Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) &#8212; The first manned space docking of China succeeded Monday afternoon with the coupling of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center said.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure began with the Shenzhou-9, with three astronauts aboard, moving to a location 52 km away from the Tiangong-1 at noon Monday. The spacecraft then slowly drifted toward the Tiangong-1 before making contact with the module at 2:07 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The docking was completed in less than eight minutes. The rigidly connected Shenzhou-9 and Tiangong-1 orbited the Earth at 7.8 km per second.<\/p>\n<p>During the process of automated docking, the astronauts namely Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang were calm and in good condition, reporting the status of Shenzhou-9 to the ground frequently, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.<\/p>\n<p>They will enter the Tiangong-1 lab module later in the day and use it to conduct scientific experiments and technical tests.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s first successful unmanned space docking was completed last year with the docking of the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft and the Tiangong-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) &#8212; The first manned space docking of China succeeded Monday afternoon with the coupling of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center said. The procedure began with the Shenzhou-9, with three astronauts aboard, moving to a location 52 km away from the Tiangong-1 at noon Monday. [&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-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321"}],"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=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}