Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

A trio of Chinese astronauts person returned to Earth aft a 90-day enactment aboard their nation’s archetypal abstraction presumption successful China’s longest ngo yet.

Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo landed successful the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft Friday a time aft they undocked from the abstraction station.

State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of the spacecraft parachuting to onshore successful the Gobi Desert wherever it was met by helicopters and off-road vehicles.

Minutes later, a unit of technicians began opening the hatch of the capsule, which appeared undamaged.

The astronauts went connected spacewalks and deployed a mechanical limb during their enactment connected the station.

China hasn't said erstwhile the adjacent unit volition beryllium sent.