BEIJING -- A three-person unit stranded astatine China's abstraction presumption aft their spacecraft was seemingly deed by abstraction debris volition instrumentality Friday utilizing the trade that brought their replacement crew, authorities media said.
The 3 astronauts were connected a six-month rotation astatine the abstraction presumption and expected to instrumentality 4 days aft the caller unit arrived connected Nov. 1.
Their instrumentality was aborted aft their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft was believed to person been struck by a tiny portion of abstraction debris. They are coming backmost utilizing the Shenzhou-21 trade instead, authorities media said.
The 3 astronauts — Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie — traveled to the Tiangong abstraction presumption successful April.
The were "in bully condition, moving and surviving normally,” China's Manned Space Engineering bureau said connected Tuesday.
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.
The latest Shenzhou-21 ngo brought mice for experiments, a archetypal for China's abstraction program.
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