The Space Span
Apr 28, 2022
4 minutes
By Yuan Yuan
Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon
The three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship safely returned to Earth on April 16, marking the conclusion of the trio’s six-month space stint. Their epic orbital mission was a complete success.
The return capsule touched down at the Dongfeng Landing Site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China at 9:56 a.m. that day. The return process was much shorter than before given this was the first time a Chinese manned spacecraft used the “rapid return mode.”
The new mode cut the return flight of to just about nine hours, much shorter than the 28 hours it took for to return in September 2021.
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