在载人飞船与空间站组合体成功交会对接后,神舟二十三号航天员乘组从飞船返回舱顺利进入轨道舱。
The Shenzhou XXIII crew has entered the Tiangong space station and met with the outgoing Shenzhou XXI astronauts.
The new arrivals — mission commander and spaceflight engineer Colonel Zhu Yangzhu, spacecraft pilot Colonel Zhang Zhiyuan, and science payload specialist Lai Ka-ying — were launched by a Long March 2F carrier rocket at 11:08 pm Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.
After flying about three and a half hours, their spaceship docked with the front port on the Tianhe core module, the central piece of the Chinese space station, at 2:45 am Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
5月25日5时13分,在轨执行任务的神舟二十一号航天员乘组打开“家门”,欢迎远道而来的神舟二十三号航天员乘组入驻中国空间站,这是中国航天史上第8次“太空会师”,也是“天宫”首次有来自香港的航天员进驻。
随后,两个航天员乘组拍下“全家福”,共同向牵挂他们的全国人民报平安。后续,两个航天员乘组将在空间站进行在轨轮换。
After all preparations were done, the Shenzhou XXI team opened a hatch in the connection cabin at 5:13 am to welcome the new team of astronauts, the space agency said in a statement.
The two crews hugged and exchanged greetings before taking a group photo.
This has become the eighth in-orbit gathering of Chinese astronauts, and marks a historic moment for Lai, the nation's first female civilian astronaut and also the first orbital traveller from Hong Kong.