When in Beijing it was afternoon, at 6 GMT, the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 9, which took off last Saturday, docked with the Tiangong 1 module.

In China it was late afternoon when the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft took off using a modified Long March 2F carrier rocket, the most powerful rocket built by the Chinese. On board there are three astronauts, including the first Chinese woman, whose mission is to test manual docking to the Tiangong 1 module, which was put into orbit in September 2011.

At the end of April, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise arrived in New York. Yesterday, it was carried up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a World War II aircraft carrier converted into a museum.

Yesterday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was released from the International Space Station and came back to Earth. Meanwhile, SpaceX announced that it signed a contract with Intelsat, the world’s largest supplier of satellite services to use the Falcon Heavy rocket for the launch of a satellite in a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).

A robotic arm controlled by the International Space Station just captured the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. At that point, they started the docking process but the Dragon successfully completed the first part of its historic voyage.