{"id":21890,"date":"2025-04-30T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21890"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:26:09","slug":"chinas-shenzhou-19-astronauts-return-to-earth-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/chinas-shenzhou-19-astronauts-return-to-earth-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Shenzhou-19 astronauts return to Earth: state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after six months on the country&#8217;s space station, state media footage showed, as Beijing advances towards its aim to become a major celestial power.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has ploughed billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years, aiming to fly a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030 and eventually build a base on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>Its latest launch last week ferried a trio of astronauts to the Tiangong space station, heralding the start of the Shenzhou-20 mission.<\/p>\n<p>They have taken over from Shenzhou-19 crew Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, whose landing capsule touched down in the northern Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from state broadcaster CCTV showed the capsule, attached to a red-and-white striped parachute, descending through an azure sky before touching down in a cloud of brown desert dust.<\/p>\n<p>Its occupants had worked on the space station since October, where they carried out experiments and set a new record for the longest ever spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The crew were initially scheduled to return on Tuesday, but the mission was postponed due to bad weather at the landing site, according to Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, 35, was China&#8217;s only woman spaceflight engineer at the time of the launch, according to the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p>Commander Cai, a 48-year-old former air force pilot, previously served aboard Tiangong as part of the Shenzhou-14 mission in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Song, a 34-year-old onetime air force pilot, completed the group of spacefarers popularly dubbed &#8220;taikonauts&#8221; in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after six months on the country&#8217;s space station, state media footage showed, as Beijing advances towards its aim to become a major celestial power. Beijing has ploughed billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years, aiming to fly a crewed mission to the Moon by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21892,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions\/21892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}