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Chinese enter the space station for first time.
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On June 18, 2012 at 09:07 UTC Jing Haipeng, commander of China's first manned space docking mission onboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, entered the "Tiangong-1” orbital station, assisted by his crew mates Liu Wang and Liu Yang. The 8.5-tonne space lab module has been traveling around Earth for 262 days since it was launched in September 2011.
