{"id":341485,"date":"2021-09-17T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinese-astronauts-return-after-90-days-aboard-space-station\/"},"modified":"2021-09-17T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:21:39","slug":"chinese-astronauts-return-after-90-days-aboard-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-astronauts-return-after-90-days-aboard-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 A trio of Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a 90-day stay aboard their nation\u2019s first space station in China\u2019s longest mission yet.<\/p>\n<p>Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo landed in the Shenzhou-12 spaceship just after 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) after having undocked from the space station Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>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. Minutes later, a crew of technicians began opening the hatch of the capsule, which <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared undamaged.<\/p>\n<p>The three astronauts emerged about 30 minutes later and were seated in reclining chairs just outside the capsule to allow them time to readjust to Earth\u2019s gravity after three months of living in a weightless environment. The three were due to fly to Beijing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith China\u2019s growing strength and the rising level of Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, I firmly believe there will even more astronauts who will set new records,\u201d mission commander Nie told CCTV.<\/p>\n<p>After launching on June 17, the three astronauts went on two spacewalks, deployed a 10-meter (33-foot) mechanical arm and had a video call with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21259147309422-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A visitor looks at a mural showing an artist's rendering of China's space station at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19488588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21259147309422-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21259147309422-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21259147309422-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A visitor looks at a mural showing an artist\u2019s rendering of China\u2019s space station at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While few details have been made public by China\u2019s military, which runs the space program, astronaut trios are expected to be brought on 90-day missions to the station over the next two years to make it fully functional.<\/p>\n<p>The government has not announced the names of the next set of astronauts nor the launch date of Shenzhou-13.<\/p>\n<p>China has sent 14 astronauts into space since 2003, when it became only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to do so on its own.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s space program has advanced at a measured pace and has largely avoided many of the problems that marked the US and Russian programs that were locked in intense competition during the heady early days of spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>That has made it a source of enormous national pride, complementing the country\u2019s rise to economic, technological, military and diplomatic prominence in recent years under the firm rule of the Communist Party and current leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>China embarked on its own space station program in the 1990s after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to US objections to the Chinese space program\u2019s secrecy and military backing.<\/p>\n<p>China has simultaneously pushed ahead with uncrewed missions, placing a rover on the little-explored far side of the Moon and, in December, the Chang\u2019e 5 probe returned lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>China this year also landed its Tianwen-1 space probe on Mars, with its accompanying Zhurong rover venturing out to look for evidence of life.<\/p>\n<p>Another program calls for collecting samples from an asteroid, an area in which Japan\u2019s rival space program has made progress of late.<\/p>\n<p>China also plans to dispatch another mission in 2024 to bring back lunar samples and is pursuing a possible crewed mission to the moon and eventually building a scientific base there, although no timeline has been proposed for such projects. 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