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Chinese crew enters new space station module for 3-month mission
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Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo successfully entered the Tianhe space station module.
About three hours later, commander Nie Haisheng, 56, followed by Liu Boming, 54, and space rookie Tang Hongbo, 45, opened the hatches and floated into the Tianhe-1 core living module. Pictures showed them busy at work unpacking equipment. "This represents the first time Chinese have entered their own space station," state broadcaster CCTV said on its nightly news broadcast. The crew will carry out experiments, test equipment, conduct maintenance and prepare the station for receiving two laboratory modules next year. The mission brings to 14 the number of astronauts China has launched into space since 2003, becoming only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to do so on its own.More Related News