Three Chinese astronauts, Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo, who were sent into space onboard the Shenzhou-12 spaceship for the space station construction mission on June 17, departed from the Tianhe core module of China’s space station about 400 kilometers above the Earth and landed
Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo onboard China’s Shenzhou-12 spaceship entered the Tianhe core module of the country’s space station at 18:48 on June 17, 2021 Beijing time after Shenzhou-12 completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, which marked the first time the Chinese have entered their