Shenzhou-20 Crew Returns To Earth After Capsule Damage Detected

Astronauts on ground with Shenzhou-21 capsule and Chinese flags
Credit: Xinhua
China’s three Shenzhou-20 astronauts returned to Earth on Nov. 14 from the Tiangong space station, landing at the Dongfeng site in Inner Mongolia after a suspected debris strike rendered the original return capsule unsafe. The crew instead used the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft for reentry. Shenzhou-20 had...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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