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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after completing a six-month mission aboard China’s space station.<\/p>\n

They left for space on 5 June to oversee the final construction stage of the Tiangong space station, which was completed in November.<\/p>\n

The crew touched down on board the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft on Sunday in China’s autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n

China’s space agency declared the mission a “complete success”.<\/p>\n

Commander Chen Dong and teammates Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe said they were feeling well after landing, in audio aired by state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n

Staff at the landing site carried the crew out of the exit capsule, which landed shortly after 20:00 local time, about nine hours after undocking from the space station.<\/p>\n

Ms Yang, China’s first female astronaut, said she had an unforgettable memory in the space station and “is excited to return to the motherland,” Xinhua state news agency reported.<\/p>\n

While in space, the three astronauts oversaw the arrival of the second and third modules for Tiangong and carried out three spacewalks to check and test the new facilities.<\/p>\n

A new crew of three Chinese astronauts arrived at the space station to make its first in-orbit crew handover on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The new crew lifted off in the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in north-west China.<\/p>\n

They will live on the station for six months. It will be the second permanently inhabited space outpost, after the Nasa-led International Space Station from which China was excluded in 2011.<\/p>\n

It is the last of 11 missions required to assemble the station that is expected to operate for around a decade and run experiments in near-zero gravity.<\/p>\n

The new crew will focus on installing equipment and facilities around the space station, a spokesperson for the China Manned Space Administration said.<\/p>\n

China is only the third country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after the Soviet Union and the US.<\/p>\n

Tiangong space station, or “Heavenly Palace”, is China’s new permanent space station. The country has previously launched two temporary trial space stations, named as Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2.<\/p>\n

Over the next decade of the Tiangong’s operation, it is expected China will launch two crewed missions to the station each year.<\/p>\n

China has opened the selection process for astronauts for future missions to applicants from the “special administrative regions” of Macau and Hong Kong, who have previously been excluded.<\/p>\n

China put its first satellite into orbit in 1970 – as it went through massive disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n

In the past 10 years, China has launched more than 200 rockets.<\/p>\n

It has already sent an unmanned mission to the Moon, called Chang’e 5, to collect and return rock samples. It planted a Chinese flag on the lunar surface – which was deliberately bigger than previous US flags.<\/p>\n

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