The Shenzhou Mission of three people from China arrived home on Wednesday (April 30) after six months in orbit.
The Shenzhou spacecraft – carrying Astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze – discredited from the Tiangong Space Station on Tuesday (April 29) at 4 PM EDT (2000 GMT; 4 AM on April 30, China Standard Time), according to the Chinese space.
The trio spent about nine hours in transit back to Earth, landing at Dongfeng’s landing site in the autonomous region of Interior Mongolia in northern China on Wednesday to approximately 1:08 am EDT (0508 GMT; 1:08 pm Standard time of China). That was a day after the originally planned; The landing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but the mission planners withdrew it due to the winding climate in Dongfeng.
The 19 Shenzhou 19 astronauts had been in space since October 29, when they launched towards Tiangong. And obtained a notable duration of milestones that extend.
For example, CAI, who was the commander of Shenzhou 19, and Song spent more than nine hours out of Tiangong duration of a space walk in mid -December, establishing a new record for longest longest lost activity.
The duo installed a new shield of space debris in the duration of Tiangong, the super long space walk. CAI and SANG also made space walks on January 20 and March 21, installing more protectors and inspecting extravehicular systems and equipment.
The 19 Shenzhou 19 astronauts also performed 86 scientific experiments lasted their time in orbit. One of those projects placed a brick made of a simulant lunar soil outside Tiangong, to see how it remains in the space environment. The results could help China plan a moon base, which aims to build with international partners in the 2030s.
Shenzhou 19 was the second space flight for CAI; He also flew to Tiangong in Shenzhou 14 in 2022. Song and Wang were novice of space flight.
Shenzhou 19 team was the young man from China to date. CAI is 48 years old, and both Song and Wang, currently the unique nation that only feminine space flight, was born in 1990.
The trio welcomed the mission of three people Shenzhou 20 to Tiangong on April 24 and officially delivered the keys to the station about to last a ceremony of change of command of April 27.
China finished gathering the three Tiangong module, which is approximately 20% so massive that the International Space Station, in November 2022. Shenzhou 19 was Creed’s eighth mission for the orbiting laboratory.