China's Shenzhou-15 crew returns to Earth

At 6:33 a.m. this morning (June 4) local time, the return capsule of the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft carrying a crew of three successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desert in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northern China.

Three astronauts have returned in good health, marking the success of the Shenzhou-15 mission, the China Manned Space Administration (CMSA) announced.

The return capsule of the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft lands at the Dongfeng landing site. Photo: Xinhua.

Speaking after landing, mission commander Fei Junlong declared: "Our Shenzhou-15 crew has completed all the work and tasks in orbit, and now we have returned to our motherland smoothly. We feel very good."

This is the oldest crew in China's spaceflight missions, with an average age of 53. During their 187 days in orbit, the trio conducted four spacewalks, the most ever, and dozens of medical experiments and space science tests, laying the foundation for future large-scale space science experiments.

Shenzhou-15 is China's 10th space mission and the fourth manned mission since the country began building the space station. The success of the spacecraft marks the completion of all 12 launch missions in the construction and key technology verification phase of the space station.

Together with this ship, the Chinese space station has a complete structure of three modules and three spacecraft, with a total mass of nearly 100 tons. The Shenzhou-15 mission marked the official operation of the Chinese space station at the end of 2022 and entered a new stage of development and application with continuous human operation for at least a decade.

Previously, the Shenzhou-16 crew was launched on May 30, including the first civilian astronaut, Gui Haichao, a 36-year-old professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who will conduct large-scale experiments in orbit.

The two crews had about four days of handover time before Shenzhou-15 returned to Earth. CMSA said it would take about six months for the returned astronauts to regain normal physical condition and about one to one and a half years to be able to carry out another space mission.

Bich Thuan (VOV-Beijing)

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