China launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to its new space station.

Beijing:

Three astronauts successfully docked with China’s new space station Saturday, state media said, on what is set to be the country’s longest crewed mission to date.

The Shenzhou-13 vessel carrying the three had docked with the radial port of the space station, state-run news agency Xinhua quotes the China Manned Space Agency as saying in a brief dispatch.

(This story has not been edited by RashtraNews.com and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)