A pair of astronauts chinese returned to Earth Friday after spending a month in orbit on the space station of the country. This was the sixth manned mission of China, and the longest until the …
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A pair of astronauts chinese returned to Earth Friday after spending a month in orbit on the space station of the country. This was the sixth manned mission of China, and the longest to date.
The veteran mission commander, Jing Haipeng, and Chen Dong, who traveled to space for the first time, landed with the capsule Shenzhou 11 in the frozen steppes of Inner Mongolia on Friday afternoon.
they Spent 30 days aboard Tiangong 2 by performing experiments and testing equipment to prepare for the launch of the central module of the station in 2018. China is on track to have a space station fully functional and with full-time crew in the term of six years.
The Tiangong 2, which launched on September 15, orbit 393 kilometers (244 miles) of the Earth.
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