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16 Apr 2022

Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission

The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China`s first space station.

15 May 2021

China’s unmanned spacecraft Tianwen-1 lands successfully on Mars

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first Mars rover landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday. This touchdown makes China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet.

13 Dec 2020

China's moon probe begins journey back to Earth with lunar samples

A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its journey back to Earth China becomes the first country to successfully retrieve lunar samples since the 1970s. A successful landing in Inner Mongolia would make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union

06 Sep 2020

China's experimental reusable spacecraft returns successfully

The Chinese spacecraft was deployed into orbit on Friday by the Long March 2F, a family of rockets that have transported Shenzhou spacecraft into orbit on both crewed and uncrewed missions over the years. Chinese social media has been rife with speculation over the spacecraft, which some commentators compared to the US Air Force`s X-37B. It is not known if the experimental spacecraft launched by China was a fixed-wing craft like the U.S. Space Shuttle. If it was similar to the X-37B, it would be about a fifth of the Space Shuttle in size.

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