Video shows a Chinese spacecraft carrying 3 astronauts successfully docking with part of its new space station

• Three astronauts have docked with part of China's new space station.
• The spaceship carrying them docked with the Tianhe module on Thursday.
• China's building its own station, due to be complete by the end of 2022.

A spaceship carrying three Chinese astronauts has successfully docked with part of the country's new space station.

The state-backed People's Daily newspaper shared footage of the Shenzhou-12 vessel docking with the Tianhe module - the first piece of the station. It is the country's first human spaceflight in five years.

Watch the video here:

-People's Daily, China (@PDChina) June 17, 2021

The three astronauts - Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo - are expected to live there for about three months.

China expects to finish building its space station by the end of 2022.