Three Chinese astronauts landed in the Gobi Desert after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country’s ambitious space program, state TV reported.
BEIJING — Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country’s ambitious space program, state TV reported.touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at approximately 8:10 p.m. , China Central Television reported.
“I am very fortunate to have witnessed the completion of the basic structure of the Chinese space station after six busy and fulfilling months in space," said Chen, who was the first to exit the capsule. “Like meteors, we returned to the embrace of the motherland."The three astronauts were part of the Shenzhou-14 mission, which launched in June.
Without attached spacecraft, the Chinese station weighs about 66 tons — a fraction of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs around 465 tons. China in 2003 became the third government to send an astronaut into orbit on its own after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
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