{"id":377251,"date":"2025-11-14T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377251\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:50:14","slug":"chinas-stranded-astronauts-to-return-from-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377251\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s stranded astronauts to return from space station"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING (AP) \u2014 A three-person crew stranded at China\u2019s space station<\/a> after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris will return Friday using the craft that brought their replacement crew, state media said.<\/p>\n

The three astronauts were on a six-month rotation at the space station and supposed to return four days after the new crew arrived<\/a> on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Their return was aborted after their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft was believed to have been struck by a small piece of space debris. They are coming back using the Shenzhou-21 craft instead, state media said.<\/p>\n

The three astronauts \u2014 Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie \u2014 traveled to the Tiangong space station in April. <\/p>\n

The were \u201cin good condition, working and living normally,\u201d China\u2019s Manned Space Engineering office said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

China has made steady progress with its space program<\/a> since 2003. It has built its own space station and has a goal of landing a person on the moon by 2030.<\/p>\n

The latest Shenzhou-21 mission brought mice for experiments, a first for China\u2019s space program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 A three-person crew stranded at China\u2019s space station after their spacecraft was apparently hit by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[166,13214,74,57,159,783,167,164,158,67,132,68,178825,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-377251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-asia-pacific","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-space-exploration","15":"tag-spacecraft","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wang-jie","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115545547003130427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}