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After setting a residence time record In space, the three Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-13 (Magic Ship) crew have landed this Saturday on earth.
The capsule with astronaut Wang Yaping and her two male colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu has landed in the Gobi desert in the northwest of the country on Saturday morning.
The landing was broadcast live on Chinese state television.
In total, the return flight of the space station, which orbits about 400 kilometers above the Earth, lasted a little over nine hours.
The crew of the ‘Shenzhou 13’ had been in space for 183 dayssince October 16, longer than other Chinese astronauts before them, almost twice as long as the previous Chinese record set last year.
In their time in space, the three astronauts – called taikonauts in China – performed two spacewalkscarried out a whole series of scientific experiments and prepared the expansion of the Chinese space station.
Wang Yaping was not only the first female astronaut to be aboard the core module, but also the first to go on a spacewalk.
In the next mission, a cargo flight is planned next month to carry materials and fuel into space for the Shenzhou-14 flight scheduled for June.
Two more modules for the main part of the future Chinese space station will be launched into space later this year.
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