Chinese astronauts' return to earth delayed owing to weather

BEIJING – Three Chinese astronauts' instrumentality to Earth has been postponed owing to upwind conditions.

The astronauts, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, were primitively owed to onshore Tuesday successful Dongfeng, successful China's bluish Inner Mongolia region, aft spending six months successful space. The landing was postponed to “guarantee the wellness and information of the astronauts” due to the fact that upwind conditions were not optimal, according to the authoritative Xinhua quality agency.

The 3 were sent up to China's Tiangong abstraction presumption successful October past year, and a new unit of astronauts precocious arrived to regenerate them.

The 3 Chinese astronauts person carried retired experiments and improvements to the abstraction presumption during their clip connected board. Two of the astronauts, Cai and Song, conducted a nine-hour abstraction walk, the world's longest, during their mission, the Manned Space Agency said.

China built its own abstraction presumption aft it was excluded from the International Space Station owing to U.S. nationalist information concerns implicit the power of the country’s abstraction programme by the People’s Liberation Army, the subject subdivision of the ruling Communist Party.

The country's abstraction programme has grown rapidly successful caller years. The abstraction bureau has landed an explorer connected Mars and a rover connected the acold broadside of the moon. It aims to enactment a idiosyncratic connected the moon earlier 2030.

Last year, 2 American astronauts coiled up stuck successful abstraction for 9 months aft a trial formation with Boeing ran into problems and NASA determined it was excessively risky for the astronauts to travel backmost to Earth successful the aforesaid capsule.

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