Next Shenzhou flight will be manned says China

By 2012-02-21T18:00:00

Shenzuou 8 docks with the Tiangong-1 mini-space st

Having had a very successful unmanned Shenzhou 8 automatic docking test with the Tiangong-1 mini-space station, China has elected to move up its next manned spaceflight to the Shenzhou 9 flight.

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