Chinese Astronauts Return To Earth After Six Month Mission

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to earth after completing a six-month mission aboard China’s space station.

They left for space on 5th June to oversee the final construction stage of the Tiangong space station, which was completed in November.

The crew touched down on board the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft on Sunday in China’s autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.

China’s space agency declared the mission a “complete success”.

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Commander Chen Dong and teammates Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe said they were feeling well after landing in audio aired by state broadcaster CCTV.

Staff at the landing site carried the crew out of the exit capsule, which landed shortly after 20:00 local time, about nine hours after undocking from the space station.

A new crew of three chinese astronauts arrived at the space station to make its first in-orbit crew handover on Wednesday.

The new crew lifted off in the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in the Gobi desert in north-west China.