Tiangong 1

…2013, carried three astronauts to Tiangong 1 for a two-week mission. The next Chinese space station, Tiangong 2, was visited only by Shenzhou 11 in late 2016. Two astronauts spent more than 32 days in orbit.

Tiangong 1 was launched on September 29, 2011. The uncrewed spacecraft Shenzhou 8 automatically docked with Tiangong 1 in November 2011. The first crewed mission, Shenzhou 9, arrived at Tiangong 1 in June 2012. Tiangong 2 launched on September 15, 2016. Only one crewed spaceflight,…

…last crewed flight to visit Tiangong 1, arrived in June 2013. Chinese engineers monitored Tiangong 1 until March 2016, when they ended communications with the station. Tiangong 1 reentered Earth’s atmosphere in April 2018.