Chinese spacecraft docks with space module - Telegraph.co.uk

China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft has completed a challenging mission to manually dock with a space module and its three astronauts are now expected to return to earth on Wednesday. According to state media, the spacecraft pulled off the tricky manouevre of manually detaching from the module before returning to its previous point of orbit. The successful manouevre was China's first ever such test and it marks a step towards China's goal of building a permanent manned space station by 2020. China first sent a human into space only in 2003 and its capabilities still lag behind the US and Russia. But its programme is highly ambitious and includes plans to land a man on the moon. Beijing sees its multi-billion-dollar space programme as a symbol of its rising global stature, growing technical expertise, and the Communist Party's success in turning around the fortunes of the once poverty-stricken nation. Source: ITN / AFP via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEIx0qHy5CM27DThmCpDygTblcK5w&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10140930/Mission-accomplished-Chinese-spacecraft-docks-with-space-module.html

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