Livestream of China's Shenzhou 15 Astronauts Returning to Earth Tonight

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Livestream of China's Shenzhou 15 Astronauts Returning to Earth Tonight
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China's Shenzhou 15 astronauts, Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu, are set to return to Earth after spending half a year aboard the Tiangong space station. The crew will return home on Sunday (June 4) Beijing time. The Shenzhou 15 trio welcomed the incoming Shenzhou 16 crew to Tiangong on Monday (May 29), and on Friday (June 2) all six astronauts participated in a ceremony to hand over control of the space station to the newcomers. The return capsule will touch down within the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, close to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, from which the crew launched six months ago.

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