China sends its Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft to its space station from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:44 p.m. on Friday (Beijing Time). Chinese astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang carry out the mission.

According to the plan, after entering orbit, the Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship will conduct a rapid automated rendezvous and docking, docking with the forward port of the Tianhe core module in about 3.5 hours, forming a three-spacecraft, three-module combination.