Xinhua news agency, Jiuquan of Gansu province, June 16, (reporter Bai Ruixue, Xu Zhuangzhi) the Shenzhou nine spacecraft launched successfully in 16, eighteen thirty-seven, Chinese astronaut Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang, Liu Yang will be the first in the "temple". The 33 year old Liu Yang also became the first Chinese woman to fly in space.
Lift the God nine spacecraft, the Long March two F. Nine rockets into the sky, from the Jiuquan satellite launch center. This is the 165th launch long march rocket, is the Shenzhou fourth manned flight.
At the moment, Tiangong-1 is about 10000 kilometers away from the spacecraft in space waiting for God to "the appointment of nine".
The next two days, the Shenzhou nine spacecraft and Tiangong-1 automatic docking. After the two together in space flight for 6 days and will brief departure, and then by the astronauts manual control rendezvous and docking.
As one of the three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou seven had access to space, the 45 year old Jing Haipeng had 45 laps around the earth experiences. When the God nine mission completed on time, he will become the "Chinese people fly far".
"The increasingly intensive future manned flight, the astronauts flights will become the norm." Jing Haipeng said, "this is a sign of China's manned spaceflight career maturity."