Posted on 12/04/2022 11:03:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
Three Chinese astronauts landed back on earth on Sunday (Dec 4) on board the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, state broadcaster CCTV reported, bringing to an end a six-month mission on China's space station.
The three astronauts - commander Chen Dong and teammates Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe - who had been overseeing the final, pivotal period of construction at the space station, which was completed in November, all said they were feeling well after landing in audio aired on CCTV.
The capsule landed at the Dongfeng site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous region at 8.09 pm, with staff from the space agency declaring the entire mission, which began on Jun 5, a "complete success", CCTV reported.
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How long before they get updated “booster shots” for Covid-19?
Yeah, too bad they didn’t have endless food and water.
But the radiation.......
Did they bring us any Moon Cookies?
Led by a commander named Dong? Guess the Peking Times headline for the successful launch was “Chinese Dong now in orbit”! Other papers headlines said “The Dong is up”.
Would have been funnier if one of the astronauts was named Wang instead of Yang.
Then the headlines would have said “Chinese Dong, Wang and Yang in orbit”.
Will we ever hear how this affected their health?
I doubt it.
I saw a black comedian talking about how there was a black person on the space shuttle both times they screwed the pooch.
He said NASA stands for "Negros Aint Supposed to be Astronauts"
Well, they were supposed to come back months ago, but those Chinese Covid restrictions are REALLY tight!
How come the US Media doesn’t cover this? It is a great achievement for what was a 3rd world state just a few years back. It would be like Cuba putting a man in Space. But, it only shows how America is floundering.
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