Chinese succeed in risky maneuver in space to dock taikonauts spacecraft by hand

China is the first time succeeded to dock a space shuttle manned by hand at a station in orbit: the spacecraft "Shenzhou" docked on Sunday to the module "Tian Gong 1". The maneuver was "running perfectly," said a manager of the Chinese space program, the broadcaster CCTV. In constant contact with the ground control center on the astronauts, Liu Wang steered the ship, therefore with a kind of joystick to the module. State television broadcast the live maneuvers. The People's Republic celebrated the success of an important stage on their way to his own space program.The manual control of the docking technique is a crucial step, a spokesman for the program. The maneuvers are a prerequisite for the construction of its own space station.China wants to build such a station in 2020. The spacecraft with the first Chinese woman in space on board was on Monday docked automatically to the test module, while the maneuver was completely controlled by the control center. Manual docking but are also important in the event of failure of the automatic systems. The taikonauts, as Chinese astronauts are called, practiced the difficult manual maneuvers on the ground in simulation 1,500 times, it is considered dangerous, as the two spacecraft orbiting at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour around the earth and destroy in a collision would . The Kampffliegerin Liu Yang is the first Chinese in space. From the Chinese media, she is already celebrated as a national heroine. During the 13-day mission in space, Liu is mainly responsible for medical experiments.