Xinhua
25 Apr 2025, 00:15 GMT+10
(250425) -- BEIJING, April 25, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on April 25, 2025 shows the crew of Shenzhou-19 and Shenzhou-20 manned spaceships talking with each other. The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-20 spaceship have entered the country's space station and met with another astronaut trio in the early hours of Friday, starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover.
The Shenzhou-19 crew opened the hatch at 1:17 a.m. (Beijing Time) and greeted the new arrivals, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The six crew members then took group pictures for the sixth space get-together in China's aerospace history.
They will live and work together for about five days to complete planned tasks and handover work, the CMSA said.
The Shenzhou-19 crew is scheduled to return to the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on April 29. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
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