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A Chinese spacecraft successfully completed the country’s first manual docking in orbit, the official Xinhua news agency said, a milestone in an ambitious program to build a space station<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft manually linked with the Tiangong-1 module just over a week into a manned space mission which includes China’s first female astronaut<\/strong>, following an automatic docking on Monday.<\/p>\n

The manual “space kiss”<\/strong> was the main goal of the Shenzhou-9 mission, testing the docking technique essential to building a space station — which China aims to do by 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The two spacecraft first came together in an automatic docking on June 18, and several hours later the three astronauts on board Shenzhou-9 entered the experimental Tiangong-1 module — a first for China.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, the two vessels separated in preparation for the manual docking<\/strong>, which state media originally said would take place around noon (0400GMT), although it was not completed until roughly 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n

Manual docking is hard to master as it involves two vessels — placed in the same orbit and revolving around Earth at thousands of kilometres per hour<\/strong> — coming together very gently to avoid destroying each other.<\/p>\n

The Tiangong-1 will only stay in orbit until 2013 and will later be replaced.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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