Wrapping up 204 Days in Orbit, three Chinese stars flew back to earth inside the shenzhou spacecraft on Friday, leaving three crew members behind at the Tianong space station in an ill-fated lifeboat.
Commander Chen Dong, ends his third trip to space, and Rookie Crew State Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie touch down inside their spacecraft at the dongfeng landing site at 1:29 UTC (06:29 UTC) on Friday. Parachute-assisted landing in mid-afternoon at the return point, located in the remote Gobi desert of northwestern China.
Chinese space authorities stepped up operations at the Tianong Space Lab last week after astronauts were injured in one of the station’s two shenzhou recovery facilities. China’s space agency, run by the country’s military, announced changes to the space station’s plan for November 4, the day before the three crew members took off and flew home.
Chen and his crew were preparing to board the Shenzhou 20 Spacecraft for a ride back to Earth a few days after the arrival of the three Shew members. Shenzhou 20 is the same spacecraft that launched Chen’s crew in April.
But more than a week ago, Chinese officials said that the Shenzhou 20 Spacecraft was suspected to have been affected by a small piece of space debris “and confirmed that the return trip will be postponed. The authorities did not provide further details.
China’s SpaceFlight Agency released a cryptic statement earlier this week saying that preparations were still underway to update the crew’s arrival and departure, but the return conditions remained at home until several hours earlier. Finally, the officials confirmed the details of the return to the World until late Thursday.
“Based on the initial analysis of the images, the design review, the analysis of the cover, and the wind tunnel test, the complete evaluation of the Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft Spacecraft The Agency wrote on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. “This does not meet the conditions for the release of a safe return created.”
Replace the spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit
With their original spacecraft deemed unsafe, Chen and his crew returned to Earth in the Shenzhou 21 Craft that launched Shenzhou 21 – Zhang Hongzhang – stayed inside the station’s only metric ton damaged Shenzhou 20 Craft available to bring them home.
China’s Shenzhou line not only provides transportation and Low-Earth orbit, they also serve as lifeboats to evacuate astronauts from the space station in a high-level situation, such as medical failure or medical failure. They serve the same role as the Russian Soyuz and Spacex Crew
Another Shenzhou Spacecraft, Shenzhou 22, “will be launched later,” the China Encher Space agency said in a statement. Shenzhou 20 will remain in orbit to ‘continue proper testing.’ Tianong Lab is designed to support a crew of six for short periods only, with a long-term stay of three Astronauts.
