It took less than eight minutes for the craft to dock safely with taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang on board.

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The docking itself was completed by taikonaut Liu Wang, about an hour and a half after Shenzhou-9 undocked from Tiangong-1.

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The three will return to the spacecraft again and separate the module for the manual docking to be performed by Liu Wang.

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Major Liu and Captain Wang both have one child each.

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Both Ms. Liu and Ms. Wang favored somber outfits and conservative haircuts and didn't speak about their personal lives in public.

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Both Ms. Liu and Ms. Wang favored somber outfits and conservative haircuts, and never spoke about their personal lives in public.

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Liu actually managed to pull out nearly thirteen million, Wang said.

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Wang, 43, co-founded Yantai Jinri OMY Construction Equipment Co. with Sun Weijie and Liu Zhenfeng in 1997.

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