According to China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 12:51 China Standard Time on October 30, the crew of the shenzhou-18 Space Shuttle mission in orbit successfully opened the “Door of home”, welcome the crew of the shenzhou-19 astronauts from afar to the China space station. The“Post-70s”, “Post-80s” and“Post-90s” astronauts have gathered at Tiangong, the fifth space rendezvous in the history of our country.
Subsequently, the two astronaut crew took a“Family photo”, a common concern for their national people reported safe.
At 4:27 on the same day, the long march-2f yao-19 carrier rocket carrying the SHENZHOU-19 manned spacecraft lifted off in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. About 10 minutes later, the spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket, the launch was a complete success. After entering orbit, the shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft successfully docked with the space station and the forward port of the core module at 1100 hours. The docking process took about 6.5 hours. After the docking, the crew of Shenzhou-19 entered the orbital module from the spacecraft’s re-entry module and then entered the China Space Station.
Subsequently, the two crew members will carry out on-orbit rotation in the space station. During this period, the six astronauts will work and live together in the space station for about five days to complete all the scheduled work.
While working and living in the space station, the crew of the Shenzhou 19 astronauts will carry out many extravehicular activities, to carry out experiments and applications in the fields of basic microgravity physics, Space Materials Science, Space Life Sciences, Space Medicine and space technology, complete the space station debris protection device installation, extravehicular load and extravehicular platform equipment installation and recovery and other tasks.
This mission is the 4th manned mission of our manned space program entering the application and development stage of the space station, and the 33rd launch mission since the implementation of the project, it was also the 543rd flight of the Long March.