Video of China's first manned space docking - Shenzhou-9 spacecraft

A Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with three people on board has successfully carried out an automatic space docking mission on Monday. The Chinese are now a step closer to creating a national manned space station. READ MORE http://on.rt.com/xeasg1

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[Zhijing78]

lol Look at these stinking fat asses American do in the entire mid east? Arab spring? or Winter....

[pete chan]

so much china bashing whatz going on with all those insecure bashers

[Unclesamslair]

Dude, nine months too late. I've been watching Scott Manley.

[Brian G]

It really doesn't matter, the Russia and US are ahead the entire world's space programs because of the cold war, it's not like other nations are really 'behind' anyone, they never had the need for human spaceflight. Recall that China, though part of the cold war, was largely neutral and did not get along with Moscow. It could care less about the space race.

[Brian G]

We go into Afghanistan, fuck us, we don't go into Syria, fuck us. We do anything, fuck us. If we went into Syria it would be a giant clusterfuck and you would blame us, if we don't, it will be a giant clusterfuck and you'll blame us.

[Brian G]

You are in low earth orbit, literally falling around the earth in an ellipse tens of thousands of kilometers long, your extremely high speed is the only thing keeping you going. You can't just put another vehicle on the same orbit - adjustments in orbit don't move you like on Earth, they change your orbit. A few fractions of a meter/second change in speed and the ships start flying away in different orbits, hundreds of kilometers apart. Play Kerbal Space Program or watch a docking video.

[JTEchicago]

Congrats from America... 很好！

[Ravensteinzh]

Although it is true that China is far behind the US in space technology... but I don't really see egotistical and insecure Chinese idiots taunting the world for finally learning how to make cast iron more than 1,200 years after the Chinese have already been mass-producing weapons using them.

[mrdanksbanks]

The manual docking technique is hard to master as it involves two vessels - placed in the same orbit and revolving around Earth at thousands of kilometres per hour - coming together very gently to avoid destroying each other.

[Unclesamslair]

can someone explain to an ignorant layman what's so hard about space docking?

[tankydhg]

What the fuck is wrong with you?