On June 3, 2023 at 22:33 UTC (on June 4 by Beijing time) the Chinese "Shenzhou-15” landing capsule landed safely at the designated area of the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desertin, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 Chinese cosmonauts – Fei Junlong (费俊龙), Deng Qingming (邓清明), Zhang Lu (张鹭). The cosmonauts spent in space 186 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. The “Shenzhou-15” mission was the 10th crewed spaceflight in China’s space program, and the 4th crew mission to China’s new “Tiangong” space station. Three other crew members of the “Tiangong” space station – Chinese cosmonauts Jing Haipeng (景海鹏), Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) and Gui Haichao (桂海潮) remained in orbit aboard the “Tiangong” station. Attachments: |