Astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo - or taikonauts, as China calls them - returned from a three-month stay on the country's new Earth-orbiting station on Friday.
Right now, that station is a single 54-foot-long module containing living quarters for astronauts. China launched that core module, called Tianhe, in April. Ultimately, the country aims to build a 66-ton Chinese Space Station which it calls Tiangong.
In orbit above Earth, Haisheng, Boming, and Hongbo tested out the Tianhe module's life-support capabilities - its oxygen generation, its ability to filter out the carbon dioxide they exhale, its protections against the radiation of space, and the way it circulates fluids. They also conducted science experiments and carried out spacewalks to install new equipment on the Tianhe module.
China is preparing to launch its next cargo mission to the CSS on Monday, and it aims to send another astronaut crew to the Tianhe module in October, according to theThe Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts, takes off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, June 17, 2021.The last time China flew humans to space was in 2016, when it launched three taikonauts to a temporary space-station prototype, called Tiangong-2.
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