China astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

3 yıl önce

BEIJING â A trio of Chinese astronauts returned to earth Friday after a 90-day stay aboard their nationâs first space station in Chinaâs longest mission yet.

Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo landed in the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft Friday at just after 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) after having undocked from the space station Thursday morning.

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State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of the spacecraft parachuting to land in the Gobi Desert where it was met by helicopters and off-road vehicles.