China's first manual space docking being successful

[ephone]

Where is gordon chang? The china-doom dreamer?

 

[shuttler]

Taikonaut Liu Wang was the controller of the docking exercise.

The standard docking allows a margin of errors of 4 degrees. This manual exercise was able to accomplish the docking within an error of 1 degree and the time was shortened by 3 minutes!

They are able to communicate with the ground control through e-mail on top of live TV transmission both ways!

The Taikonauts will be back to earth in 4-5 days time! Best wishes and well done!

Its Liu Yang.

Astronaut Liu Wang, assisted by his teammates Jing Haipeng and Liu Yang, controlled the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft to dock with the Tiangong-1 space lab module at 12:48 p.m., which were reconnected about seven minutes later.

China's first manual space docking successful - Xinhua | English.news.cn

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Well done! Congratulation!

 

[shuttler]

Where is gordon chang? The china-doom dreamer?

that "China doomsday" fortune teller is counting the wetness on the no of squares on back of his turtle and then make his predicton on the next collapse of China! How about Minxin Pei?

 

[shuttler]

The vid with English interpretation:


[video]http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/202936/7854214.html[/video]

 

[terranMarine]

Great achievements, both the 7 km depth in the Mariana trench and the manual docking. We can be proud of all those people involved in these advanced projects. Deep sea & space explorations are now part of China's history as well. Heck even many people from EU think it's awesome and hope to give space exploration a new impulse. Once the space station is finished i hope they can do plenty of research that can benefit us. A few years from now we shall reach new milestones.