China launches Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to assist in return of 3 astronauts stranded on space station

BEIJING AP China launched the Shenzhou spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a group of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China s space station Related Articles US push for Russia-Ukraine peace deal gains momentum as attacks on Kyiv kill more arrested in M Louvre jewel heist Paris prosecutor says Israel says it received another set of human remains from Gaza In the modern day in History November Elian Gonzalez rescued Sudan s top general rejects US-led ceasefire proposal calling it the worst yet The Shenzhou which successfully docked at the Tiangong space station Tuesday will be used sometime in by the three astronauts who arrived on Nov Earlier this month another group of Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou mission faced a nine-day delay in their return to Earth after their craft s window was damaged They eventually returned using the Shenzhou spacecraft which had just carried the replacement crew to Tiangong While the three-person crew landed safely on Earth three of their fellow astronauts on the replacement crew were temporarily left without a guaranteed way to return in circumstance of an exigency The Shenzhou spacecraft the damaged one which for now remains in space will be brought down to Earth later and assessed according to state broadcaster CCTV The space effort determined it didn t meet safety standards for transporting the astronauts Chinese astronauts have been carrying out missions to the Tiangong space station in new years as part of Beijing s rapidly progressing space operation initially building out the station module-by-module China developed Tiangong after the country was excluded from the International Space Station over U S national prevention concerns since China s space venture is controlled by its military Tiangong which means Heavenly Palace hosted its first crew in It is smaller than the International Space Station which has been operating for years