Another giant leap for China's burgeoning space programme.<br/> <br />Three Chinese astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft successfully dock with experimental space lab Tiangong-1.<br/> <br />The 15-day mission will be the longest time Chinese astronauts have spent in space.<br/> <br />While still someway behind established space superpowers, the United States and Russia, China has an ambitious space programme.<br/> <br />Budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.<br/> <br />But China is already setting its sights on an unmanned mission to the moon.<br/> <br />Scientists have also raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon, though not before 2020.
