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Shenzhou-11, China's sixth manned spacecraft which was successfully launched on Monday, will dock with the Tiangong-2 space lab on Wednesday early morning.

After changing its orbit five times, the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft will be 52 kilometers behind the Tiangong-2 space lab. Then the two will enter the state of automatic control.

While the spacecraft will chase the space lab, the two will decelerate for adjustments at four mooring points which are 5 kilometers, 400 meters, 120 meters, and 30 meters.

During the deceleration process, the two astronauts will prepare for entering the Tiangong-2 space lab. When Shenzhou-11 docks with Tiangong-2, the astronauts will pass through a one-meter-long passage formed during the docking process to enter the space lab.

"The door of Tiangong is a little bit troublesome. The astronaut needs to lie down their body in the passage to open the door horizontally. The passage is about 1 meter long and about 0.8 meters wide. It is a tube-like passage. The astronaut needs to go through it horizontally and then raise head to open the door," said Liu Ning, expert of No. 5 Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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