After China’s Longest Space Mission, Astronauts Return To Earth.
Key Sentence:
- Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth with a crew after completing the country’s most extended space mission.
- They spent 90 days in the Tianhe module of the Chinese space station, some 380 kilometers above Earth.
The three men boarded the human-crewed Shenzhou-12 Space Mission spacecraft and left the space station on Thursday. The successful mission is further evidence of China’s growing confidence and capabilities in space. Nie Haisheng, Liu Boxing, and Tang Honbo descended into the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia at around 13:35 local time (05:35 GMT).
They flew into space on June 17 and came from the same desert.
In space, the three men performed various tasks, including Space Mission sending experimental data to Earth. And carrying out space missions lasting several hours, according to China’s Global Times.
The main module of the space station where the astronauts live is said to have separate living quarters for each astronaut. And a spacious gym equipped with specially designed treadmills and bicycles. The Global Times reported, citing China’s Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.
However, he also had to develop his space station because it was excluded from the international space station project. The United States, which has partnerships with Russia, Europe, Canada, and Japan, will not work with China in orbit.