2026-11-03 · South China Morning Post
🔮 On This DayChina’s historic first space docking in 2011 – SCMP archive
Fifteen years ago, China’s unmanned Shenzhou VIII spacecraft successfully docked with Tiangong-1 – a first for the country
This article was first published on November 4, 2011.
China a step closer to building its own space station
by Stephen Chen
Encouraged by yesterday (November 3, 2011) morning’s historic rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft, Chinese authorities said construction of a space station will begin as soon as 2013. assertive