TV grab taken on June 24, 2012 shows Chinese astronaut Liu Wang, assisted by his teammates Jing Haipeng and Liu Yang, controlling the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft toward the Tiangong-1 space lab module. China's first manual space docking started Sunday noon.
A manual docking between Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module has been successful Sunday.
The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module has been conjoined again.
It means China has completely grasped the space rendezvous and docking technologies and had the fundamental abilities to build a space station.
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