UPDATE Video: Shenzhou-11 Spacecraft Docks with Tiangong-2 Space Lab
China’s Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft successfully completed its automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab at 03:31 Wednesday Beijing time, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC).
Shenzhou-11, which was launched Monday morning from northwest China’s Gobi Desert, began to approach Tiangong-2 automatically at 01:11 Wednesday and made contact with the space lab at 03:24.
The rendezvous took place in orbit about 393 kilometers above Earth.
The two astronauts aboard Shenzhou-1