Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, watches the live broadcast of the Shenzhou-12 mission launch and extends warm greetings and congratulations to all members who participated in the mission at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, in Beijing, capital of China, June 17, 2021. The crewed Shenzhou-12 spaceship, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:22 a.m. (Beijing Time), successfully docked with the space station core module Tianhe at 3:54 p.m., forming a three-module complex with the cargo craft Tianzhou-2. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
