China's Longest Crewed Space Mission Ends As Astronauts Return To Earth

in china •  3 years ago  (edited)

The Shenzhou-13 spacecraft is the latest mission in China's drive to become a major space power rivalling the US, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon.

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Beijing: Three Chinese space travelers arrived in northern China on Saturday following 183 days in space, state telecaster CCTV said, finishing the nation's longest run space mission to date.
The Shenzhou-13 shuttle is the most recent mission in Beijing's drive to turn into a significant space power equaling the United States, subsequent to handling a meanderer on Mars and sending tests to the Moon.

The two men and one lady - - Zhai Zhigang, Ye Guangfu and Wang Yaping - - landed securely in a little container quickly before 10 am Beijing time, following a half year on board the Tianhe center module of China's Tiangong space station.

"Shenzhou 13's reemergence case effectively landed," state telecaster CCTV said.

Live film from CCTV showed the container arrival in a dust storm, with ground group who had stayed away from the arrival site hurrying in helicopters to arrive at the case.

Ground team hailed as the space explorers each alternated to report that they were "feeling better."

The triplet initially sent off in the Shenzhou-13 from the Gobi Desert in northwestern China last October, as the second of four manned missions during 2021-2022 shipped off gather the country's first long-lasting space station - - Tiangong, and that signifies "superb castle."

Wang turned into the primary Chinese lady to spacewalk last November, as she and her associate Zhai introduced space station hardware during a six-hour stretch.

Mission leader Zhai, 55, is a previous military pilot who played out China's initially spacewalk in 2008, while Ye is a People's Liberation Army pilot.

The triplet have finished two spacewalks, did various logical analyses, set up hardware and tried innovations for future development during their time in circle.

The space travelers went through the beyond couple of weeks cleaning up and setting up the lodge offices and hardware for the group of the approaching Shenzhou-14, expected to be sent off before long.

China's past record spaceflight mission length was set by last year's Shenzhou-12 mission, which endured 92 days.

A half year will turn into the ordinary space explorer home period on board the Chinese space station, as per state telecaster CCTV.

Space Race

The world's second-biggest economy has placed billions into its military-run space program, bearing in mind the end goal of having a forever run space station by 2022 and at last sending people to the Moon.

The nation has made some amazing progress in finding the United States and Russia, whose space travelers and cosmonauts have many years of involvement with space investigation.

However, under Chinese President Xi Jinping the nation's arrangements for its intensely advanced "space dream" have been placed into overdrive.

Other than a space station, Beijing is additionally wanting to construct a base on the Moon, and the country's National Space Administration said it intends to send off a maintained lunar mission by 2029.

China has been rejected from the International Space Station beginning around 2011, when the US restricted NASA from drawing in with it.

While China doesn't plan to involve its space station for worldwide participation on the size of the ISS, Beijing has said it is available to unfamiliar coordinated effort albeit the extent of that collaboration isn't yet clear.

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