China Plans First Manual Space Docking June 24

BEIJING — Chinese astronauts plan to execute their country’s first manual space docking maneuver on June 24, six days after the automatic docking of their Shenzhou 9 spacecraft allowed them to move into the Tiangong orbital laboratory. The June 18 transfer was the first time that astronauts had...

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