Three taikonaut successfully returned to Earth after a mission in space,
According to “Xinhua”.
“The three Chinese astronauts, the first sent into orbit for the construction of the space station, completed its three-month mission and returned safely to Earth on Friday,” – said the agency
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The return capsule of the manned spacecraft Shenzhou 12 taikonaut Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo landed on the landing area in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
In July Boming and Hongbo made a spacewalk. Shenzhou 12 with three taikonaut was launched in June.
The deployment of the Chinese space station Tiangong module began in 2021 with the launch of the base module Tianhe. Structurally, the station that until 2023 should receive modules Wentian and Mengtian, resembles a smaller Soviet-Russian “Mir”. Tiangong will be able to attend up to three taikonaut. The expected service life of the space station, which will become the world’s third multi-module orbit – ten years with a possible extension for another five