The Shenzhou spacecraft - 8 has returned to Earth

According to Xinhua , on the evening of November 17, the Shenzhou unmanned spacecraft - 8 returned to Earth and landed in the North of this country, ending its historic mission of making the first aerial assembly. of China.

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Proposed in space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (Gansu Province, northwest China) on November 1, Shenzhou - 8 has successfully assembled twice with the Thien Cung module - 1, a module. The experiment was also launched from Suu Tuyen on Earth's orbit on September 29.

With this success, China has become the third country in the world, after America and Russia, to master this space technology.

Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang De Jiang on behalf of the central government congratulated the success of Shenzhou - 8, considering it an important breakthrough in the country's outer space assembly technology, copper. it was also a leap of Chinese space technology.

Russian famous cosmonaut Igor Lisov commented that this is an important turning point, demonstrating a level of technological development of China. He said : "Unlike Russia or the United States sometimes malfunctioning on the way to conquer the universe, China grows faster, sometimes leaping several steps at a time."

The expert assessed that China has reached a stage ready to build a space station after only three flights of manned spacecraft (Shenzhou - 5, Shenzhou - 6 and Shenzhou - 7).