05 August 2022
On 24 July, the Wentian lab module docked successfully with the Tianhe core module of China's space station. The whole docking process took 13 hours, a huge progress compared to the docking of the Shenzhou-8, which took two days. Xie Yongchun, director of Technology Committee, 502 Research Institute of the China Academy of Space Technology, is the leading figure in overcoming the technological challenge of rendezvous and docking.
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