The Fourth Space Reunion: Three astronauts from Shenzhou 18 successfully entered the Chinese Space Station

According to news from this site on April 26, the China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that the Shenzhou 18th manned spacecraft and space station combination successfully achieved independent rapid rendezvous and docking. The Shenzhou 18th astronaut crew has The spacecraft returns to the orbital module.

At 5:04 Beijing time today, the astronaut crew of the Shenzhou 17th mission in orbit successfully opened the "door" , welcome the Shenzhou 18th astronaut crew from afar to settle in the "Tiangong".

Afterwards, the two astronaut crews took a "family photo" and jointly reported their safety to the people across the country who were concerned about them.

This is the fourth space meeting. The six astronauts of Shenzhou 17 and Shenzhou 18 will work and live together on the space station for about 5 days to complete various scheduled tasks.

This site previously reported that this mission is the third manned mission in the application and development stage of the space station, and the 32nd mission of the manned aerospace project. The astronaut team that carried out the Shenzhou 18 manned mission consisted of three astronauts, Ye Guangfu, Li Hang, and Li Guangsu, with Ye Guangfu serving as the commander. The crew includes 1 astronaut from the second batch and 2 astronauts from the third batch, all of whom were born in the 1980s.

While staying in orbit, the Shenzhou 18 astronauts will receive visits from the Tianzhou 8 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou 19 manned spacecraft, and are scheduled to return to the Dongfeng Landing Site in late October this year.

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