Chinese astronauts stranded aboard the country’s Tiangong space station after suspected space junk struck their capsule have returned to Earth on Friday aboard their replacement crew’s spacecraft, the China’s human spaceflight agency has said.
The three astronauts – Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui, and Chen Dong – part of the Shenzhou-20 mission were initially expected to make their way back to Earth on 5 November, but a suspected impact from a small piece of space debris on their return spacecraft called off their scheduled departure.
