beijing, oct. 30 (xinhua) -- the three astronauts of china's shenzhou-19 spaceflight mission have entered the tiangong space station and met with another astronaut trio on wednesday, starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover. the shenzhou-18 crew opened the hatch at 12:51 p.m. (beijing time) and greeted the new arrivals, according to the china manned space agency (cmsa). the six crew members then took group pictures for the fifth space get-together in china's aerospace history. they will live and work together for about five days to complete planned tasks and handover work, the cmsa said. the shenzhou-18 crew is scheduled to return to the dongfeng landing site in north china on nov. 4.
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