On September 16, 2016, China put into orbit its space laboratory, the Heavenly Palace-2, which is already planned to be converted into a full-fledged working orbital station by 2022. Exactly one month later, on October 17, two astronauts were sent to the “Palace”, who were to stay there for a month, doing applied and scientific research. The Taikunauts, 50-year-old Jing Haipeng and 37-year-old Chen Dong, flew aboard a spacecraft at the scheduled time and arrived in orbit according to a schedule. The month passed quickly, and now they are back!
“The descent capsule of the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft made a successful landing in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region located in the north of the PRC. The landing took place in the morning, the capsule was found in the intended landing area, ”reported the Beijing Space Flight Control Center.
An hour ago, the ground crew of the Center arrived at the landing site, which reported that the hatch was open, and both astronauts feel great.
China is seriously engaged in space exploration. In addition to launching its own space laboratory, the Celestial Empire is implementing its ideas according to plan: Chinese experts plan to build an observatory in Antarctica, in parallel with the development of a space spaceplane, and recently China launched the world's first quantum communications satellite.
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