Beijing: a trio chinese astronaut China returned to Earth on Friday after a 90-day stay on its country’s first space station in its longest mission to date.
Ni Haisheng, liu boming And tang hongbo The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft landed just after 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) after undocked from the space station on Thursday morning.
State broadcaster CCTV shows footage of spacecraft parachuting for landing Gobi Desert Where it met with helicopters and off-road vehicles. A few minutes later, a team of technicians began to open the hatch of the capsule, which appeared to be unharmed.
After launch on June 17, Mission Commander Ni and astronauts Liu and Tang went on two spacewalks, deployed a 10-metre (33-foot) mechanical arm, and had a video call with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
While few details have been made public by China’s military that runs the space program, the astronaut trio is expected to be brought on a 90-day mission to the station over the next two years to make it fully functional.
The government has neither announced the names of the next set of astronauts nor the launch date of Shenzhou-13.
China has sent 14 astronauts to space since 2003, when it became only the third country to do so after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Due to US objections to the secrecy of the Chinese space program and military support, China began its own space station program after being ejected from the International Space Station.
Ni Haisheng, liu boming And tang hongbo The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft landed just after 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) after undocked from the space station on Thursday morning.
State broadcaster CCTV shows footage of spacecraft parachuting for landing Gobi Desert Where it met with helicopters and off-road vehicles. A few minutes later, a team of technicians began to open the hatch of the capsule, which appeared to be unharmed.
After launch on June 17, Mission Commander Ni and astronauts Liu and Tang went on two spacewalks, deployed a 10-metre (33-foot) mechanical arm, and had a video call with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
While few details have been made public by China’s military that runs the space program, the astronaut trio is expected to be brought on a 90-day mission to the station over the next two years to make it fully functional.
The government has neither announced the names of the next set of astronauts nor the launch date of Shenzhou-13.
China has sent 14 astronauts to space since 2003, when it became only the third country to do so after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Due to US objections to the secrecy of the Chinese space program and military support, China began its own space station program after being ejected from the International Space Station.
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