The Shenzhou Space Missions

Command Pilot:

Jing Haipeng

(Second Space Flight)

Crew member:

Liu Wang

(First Space Flight)

Crewmember:

Liu Yang

(First Chinese Woman Space Flight)

Backup Crewmember-1 Nie Haisheng
Crewmember -2 Zhang Xiaoguang
Crewmember -3 Wang Yaping

Shenzhou 9 was a manned spacecraft flight of China's Shenzhou Programme, launched at 18:37:24 CST (10:37:24 UTC), 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first manned spacecraft to dock with the Tiangong 1 space station, which took place on 18 June. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft landed at 10:01:16 CST (02:01:16 UTC) on 29 June in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The mission's crew included the first Chinese female astronaut, Liu Yang. The next planned mission is Shenzhou 10, intended for launch in 2013

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The Long March 2F rocket was launched on 16 June 2012 at 10:37 UTC.

Shenzhou 9 docked with China's first space lab Tiangong-1 at 06:07 UTC on 18 June, marking China's first crewed spacecraft rendezvous and docking. This docking was remotely controlled from a ground station. After about 3 hours, when the pressures inside the vessels were equalized, Jing Haipeng entered into Tiangong-1. Six days later, Shenzhou 9 detached from the station and then redocked manually under the control of crew member Liu Wang, making it the first manual docking for the Chinese program.

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