Chinese Docking Success

The crew of the Shenzhou 9 has accomplished the first manned docking of two spacecraft in Chinese history, making China only the third nation, behind the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, to do that.

After the docking, the crew entered the Tiangong 1space station module, where the three taikonauts will conduct scientific experiments and test technology.

The Chinese took an interesting approach to stimulating the crew.  They hid small items in the Tiangong module for the taikonauts to find-- a sort of orbital Easter egg hunt.  The point of the hunt, they say, is partly for fun and partly to test the crew's problem solving ability in microgravity.  After fifty years of space travel, the ability of humans to think in space should be well established, but one more demonstration won't hurt.