The astronauts carried out a successful mission to build the Tiangong space station, China says.
to make its first in-orbit crew handover on Wednesday.
They will live on the station for six months. It will be the second permanently inhabited space outpost, after the Nasa-led International Space Station from which China was excluded in 2011. China is only the third country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after the Soviet Union and the US.Chinese astronauts completed the first in-orbit handover at the Tiangong space station
Over the next decade of the Tiangong's operation, it is expected China will launch two crewed missions to the station each year.
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