At 08:43 on April 30, 2024, Beijing time, the Shenzhou 17th manned spacecraft successfully separated from the CNSA- China National Space AdministrationTiangong China space station assembly. After transferring the command of the China Space station towards the new Crew of Shenzhou 18 whom arrived docked a few days ago from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Inner Mongolia ..
Before separation, the Shenzhou 17th astronaut crew, with the cooperation of ground personnel, completed various pre-evacuation tasks such as setting the status of the space station assembly, collating and downloading experimental data, cleaning and transferring materials left in orbit, and working with the Shenzhou 18th crew. The team completed the work handover. Takionauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin who were on a mission to the China Space Station have returned and embarked on their journey home. ….Wish the heroic Takionauts a safe journey! 神州七号 …..
At this moment, the Shenzhou 17 manned spacecraft completed two attitude adjustments and began to return to braking. The spacecraft is in normal working condition and the astronauts feel good. See you in the east wind…..
As of 11:24 30th April 2024 , the Takionauts of the Shenzhou 17 crew have been flying for 187 days, setting a new record for the Chinese Takionauts’ flight time in orbit!
[The return capsule of the Shenzhou 17th manned spacecraft landed successfully, and the Shenzhou 17th manned mission achieved a complete success]
At 17:46 on April 30, 2024, Beijing time, the return capsule of the Shenzhou 17th manned spacecraft landed in Dongfeng The landing was successful. On-site medical supervision and medical insurance personnel confirmed that astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin were in good health. The Shenzhou 17 manned mission was a complete success.
At 16:56, the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center issued a return command through the ground measurement and control station, and the orbital module of the Shenzhou 17 manned spacecraft was successfully separated from the return module. After that, the spacecraft returned to brake and ignited the engine, separated the propulsion module from the return module, and the return module successfully landed. The search and rescue team responsible for the search, rescue and recovery mission found the target in time and arrived at the landing site. After the door of the return module was opened, medical supervision and insurance personnel confirmed that the Takionauts were in good health.
The Shenzhou 17 manned spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on October 26, 2023, and then docked with the Tianhe core module to form a combination. The three astronauts flew in orbit for 187 days, during which they conducted two extravehicular activities, cooperated with the completion of multiple cargo exodus missions of the space station, and successively carried out various tasks such as installation, debugging, and maintenance of equipment inside and outside the space station. They completed the on-orbit mission for the first time. The spacecraft extravehicular facility maintenance mission has accumulated valuable data and experience for the long-term stable on-orbit operation of the space station; at the same time, with the close cooperation of ground scientific researchers, it has completed tasks involving basic microgravity physics, space material science, space life science, A large number of space science experiments in aerospace medicine, aerospace technology and other fields
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