COSMIS KISS: China’s Tianzhou-5 Cargoship Reconnects with Tiangong in Spectacular Reunion!

SPACE REUNION: Here’s a super cool footage of Shenzhou-15 redocking with Tiangong Space Station. Why and how did #Tianzhou5 re-dock with the #ChinaSpaceStation？ Tianzhou-5 cargo vessel detached from #ChinaSpaceStation in May to leave room for Tianzhou6. Now that #Shenzhou15 has gone, Tianzhou-5 re-docked with the station to offer room for Shenzhou16 crew to restore their waste. The cargo spacecraft had separated from the orbiting combination of the space station on May 5 to leave room for its successor – the Tianzhou-6 – and switched to independent flight mode temporarily. It had been in orbit independently for 33 days before the re-docking.