China's stranded astronauts 'in good condition' after space debris delays planned return

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BEIJING -- The stranded unit of a Chinese abstraction ngo is "in bully condition, moving and surviving normally,” China's Manned Space Engineering bureau said connected Tuesday.

The 3 astronauts connected the Shenzhou-20 ngo are facing a delayed instrumentality to Earth aft their scheduled Nov. 5 instrumentality was aborted aft their spacecraft was believed to person been struck by a tiny portion of abstraction debris.

The instrumentality has been pushed backmost to an unspecified date, but the ngo squad is carrying retired tests and drills, according to a connection issued by the abstraction agency.

“The Shenzhou-20 unit is successful bully condition, moving and surviving normally,” the connection said.

The 3 astronauts — Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie — traveld to the Tiangong abstraction presumption successful April and were finishing their six-month rotation.

The replacement Shenzhou-21 ngo successfully docked with the abstraction presumption connected Nov. 1, carrying for the archetypal clip a radical of mice for experiments.

China has made dependable advancement with its abstraction programme since 2003. It has built its ain abstraction presumption and has a extremity of landing a idiosyncratic connected the satellite by 2030.

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