 Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to tomorrow. There's a whole bunch of rocket launches that I want to talk about in detail today So let's just get right into it. This is your space pod for October 19th 2016 So first off we have two tycoon knots from China who successfully launched in their Shenzhou 11 capsule on a long March 2f rocket Either on Sunday or Monday depending on where you were in the world This launch took place at 2330 coordinated universal time on Sunday, October 16th But the local time was 7 30 a.m. On Monday, October 17th local Beijing time This launch took place from the G-quan satellite space center and as I said on board were only two tycoon knot crew members The Shenzhou 11 capsule can hold three crew members But the reason that they only took two up on this mission was because they wanted to bring along more supplies for a long-duration Human spaceflight China is hoping to beat their previous human spaceflight record Which is 15 days and the current schedule for this mission is going to be 33 days After a 10-minute rocket ride the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft was successfully put into low-earth orbit and quickly Deployed its solar panels to collect power now the two crew members for this particular mission were announced to the public less than 24 hours before the launch itself and it consists of a veteran tycoon knot and a rookie tycoon knot on his first spaceflight The veteran is Jing Haiping who served on two previous missions Shenzhou 7 and Shenzhou 9 and then the rookie is Chen Dong who like I said, this is his first spaceflight Now just two days later the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft was able to rendezvous with the Tian Gong 2 module and Successfully dock with the module automatically now We were supposed to get footage from a sub-satellite that would be recording the docking from a different perspective But I haven't been able to find any footage of that But there is quite a bit of footage of the the different cameras that are on the Shenzhou 11 and Tian Gong 2 modules And this took place on October 19th. The docking was at 1924 coordinated universal time and within just about three hours They were able to enter into the lab and wave at the cameras now the two tycoon knots have quite a few tasks ahead of them for their month-long journey at this space station and First and foremost they're going to be setting up a lot of equipment and experiments that they will be conducting themselves and future visitors might be doing and When they're not doing these science experiments and once they've finished setting up the hardware that they need They're going to be doing a lot of public outreach and they're even going to be special Correspondence for the Chinese news media so that should be interesting one of the big things about Tian Gong 2 is it should have the Capability to be refueled by a cargo ship which China is going to be sending to the space station sometime next year and With that that prevents Tian Gong 2 from being in this situation like Tian Gong 1 is right now And that situation is that Tian Gong 1 is out of control and the Chinese space agency recently announced that they have Pretty much figured out that it's going to be re-entering the earth's atmosphere sometime next year They still don't have enough data as to have any sort of landing or crash predictions of what zones it might come over But hopefully it won't be posing any risks to any humans anywhere and the most likely scenarios that it would splash down over The ocean somewhere or rather the pieces that survive re-entry would splash down over the ocean in any case I'm really excited about this and I hope that China continues to use the Tian Gong 2 module for as long as they possibly can It would be awesome if they even docked it to their future mirror class space station that they're planning to build Although I haven't seen any sort of plans or ideas that endorse that from the Chinese space agency But that's just me wishful thinking. I think that we should use those this hardware as long as possible Do you think that they will try to use that module as long as possible or just get the goals that they need to complete the Milestones that they need and move on towards their mirror class Multimodule station. Let me know in the comment section below I'd also like to invite you to connect with us on all of our social medias our Facebook page our tomorrow account our tomorrow subreddit and of course our website tomorrow TV where you can jump into the chat room at any time and have a Conversation with fellow space enthusiasts. 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