Majestic photo shows China’s Tiangong space station in all its glory

China’s Tiangong space station has been photographed in its full type for the primary time. The vertiginous photo was taken from the Shenzhou spacecraft because it made its method again to Earth after delivering three crew members to the space station.

Tiangong is absolutely operational, after the third and last module, Mengtian, was hooked up late final yr. This module, on the high of the picture, and Wentian, on the backside, are each laboratory modules. The Tianhe module, on the centre of the photo, accommodates astronauts’ residing quarters and a docking hub.

The space station’s essential function is for scientific analysis: the China Manned Space Agency has permitted greater than 1000 experiments to be carried out in microgravity, on questions comparable to how vegetation develop in space and the way fluids move. The three Chinese astronauts presently aboard the space station arrived in late October and can keep there for six months.