China’s first cruise ship to record a six -month record on the country’s new space station will return to Earth tonight so you can watch it live online.
The three members of the Shenzhou 13 China tour will land at Tiangong Airport tonight (April 15) in a four -hour window that opens at 8 pm EDT (0000 April 16 GMT) with a landing at believed to be near Dongfeng in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. You can watch the video in the window above, courtesy of China’s CCTV news industry.
Returning home on Shenzhou 13 was missionary Zhai Zhigang and colleagues Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. Shenzhou 13 was released from the site last night at 8:44 pm EDT (0044 April 15 GMT), according to the latest from the China Manned Space Engineering branch of the China National Space Administration.
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Zhai and Wang were pilots, while Ye was on his first flight. The three were released in the main module of the Tiangong campus, called Tianhe, in October. 15 and 167 days in the air at the end of their flight.
The Shenzhou 13 mission was China’s longest trip to Tiangong airport (the Shenzhou 12 trip was 92 days), Wang being the first woman to visit the orbiting lab. Wang was also the first Chinese woman to make a tour, something she discovered in November when she and Zhai worked abroad.
During their mission, the Shenzhou 13 performed docking tests and two walking tours to decorate the new base station. They have also participated in more than 20 scientific experiments on a variety of topics, including life sciences and the effects of long -distance flight on the human body.
The sailors also gave two science lectures to students on Earth who were the first Chinese astronauts to celebrate the New Year in the sky.
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