One Step Forward to a Space Station——The Successful Docking of the Shenzhou-8 Spacecraft with Tiangong-1  

作　　者：LU RUCAI 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《China Today》2011年第12期30-30,共1页今日中国(英文版)

摘　　要：ON September 29,2Oll the 8.5-ton target vehicle Tiangong-1 was launched successfully,and now orbits the Earth at a distance of 350 km.It has now been lO years since the launch of Shenzhou-1 on November 2o,1999,and on November 1 of this year Shenzhou-8 blasted off skywards,tracking for thousands of kilometers before docking with Tiangong-1 on November 3.

分 类 号：V11[航空宇航科学与技术—人机与环境工程]