Six astronauts are now aboard Tiangong for a brief time.
The trio, the crew of the Shenzhou 16 mission,The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking withat 4:29 a.m. on May 30 , docking with the radial port of the station's Tianhe core module. Footage released by the China Manned Space Agency and Chinese broadcaster CCTV shows the spacecraft approaching and docking while traveling at around 17,800 mph .The astronauts of China's Shenzhou 16 mission entered the nation's Tiangong space station on May 30, 2023.
Footage from inside Tiangong shows the Shenzhou 15 crew — Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu — greeting the incoming Shenzhou 16 astronauts as they enter the hatch to the outpost. Shenzhou 16 commander Jing Haipeng, spaceflight engineer Zhu Yangzhu and payload specialist Gui Haichao — the first members of a third astronaut selection group to fly to space — are set to take over command of Tiangong from the Shenzhou 15 crew, who will return toJing, Zhu and Gui will remain aboard the orbital outpost until November, conducting science experiments, extravehicular activities and engaging in science popularization and outreach.
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