"I'm envious of their spacious home," says Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut entering the space, when he congratulates the astronauts of Shenzhou-12 spaceship entering the country's space station core module Tianhe.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Thursday.
The three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-12 spaceship will dedicate to four major tasks in the in-orbit construction of the station in the following three months.
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