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China's Shenzhou-14 crew to return to Earth Sunday night
Updated 22:25, 03-Dec-2022
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China's Shenzhou-14 crew members (from left to right) Liu Yang, Chen Dong and Cai Xuzhe at the space station greet the Shenzhou-15 crew members in a video released on Novemver 29, 2022. /CMSA
China's Shenzhou-14 crew members (from left to right) Liu Yang, Chen Dong and Cai Xuzhe at the space station greet the Shenzhou-15 crew members in a video released on Novemver 29, 2022. /CMSA

China's Shenzhou-14 crew members (from left to right) Liu Yang, Chen Dong and Cai Xuzhe at the space station greet the Shenzhou-15 crew members in a video released on Novemver 29, 2022. /CMSA

China's Shenzhou-14 crew members on board the country's orbiting space station will return to Earth on December 4, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Saturday.

The return capsule carrying the three taikonauts will touch down at the Dongfeng landing site in north China. Various systems at the landing site, including the helicopter team, the airlift team and the ground team, have all completed preparations and are ready for the return of the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts.

The trio was sent to the space station in early June for a six-month mission to help build the space station and have completed all their scheduled tasks.

They welcomed the Shenzhou-15 crew members at the "space home" on Wednesday morning, and handed over the control of the space station to the Shenzhou-15 crew on Friday, completing the country's first in-orbit crew rotation, according to the CMSA.

The six of them will hang around in the space station just a little longer before the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts head back to Earth. 

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