Saturday, March 3, 2012

Shenzhou 9

Shenzhou 9 is a planned manned flight of China's Shenzhou program that is scheduled for launch no earlier then June 2012. Shenzhou 9 will be the second spacecraft to dock with the Tiangong 1 space station, and the first manned docking. The aim of the mission will be to perform a docking with the Tiangong 1 (an unmanned space laboratory module). This mission will be followed by the manned Shenzhou 10 which is planned to be launched in 2012 as well.

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