On October 18, 2016 at 19:24 UTC (on October 19 at 03:24 Beijing time) the Chinese "Shenzhou-11” manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the "Tiangong-2” space lab. Two Chinese cosmonauts (Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong) aboard the "Shenzhou-11” monitored and reported the docking operation to the control center. The crew open hatches leading into the “Tiangong-2” module within a few hours of arriving to begin a one-month stay inside the mini-station.