Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country's first docking procedure early on Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above the Earth's surface. Nearly two days after it was launched, the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 docked with space lab module Tiangong-1.
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