{"id":2993,"date":"2026-01-22T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-shenzhou-20-return-capsule-touches-down-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:44:21","slug":"chinas-shenzhou-20-return-capsule-touches-down-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-shenzhou-20-return-capsule-touches-down-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Shenzhou-20 return capsule touches down on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >The return capsule of the Shenzhou-20 spaceship, carrying no astronauts, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in north China&#8217;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 9:34 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p  >An on-site inspection confirmed that the exterior of the Shenzhou-20 return capsule was generally intact and the items inside were in good condition, the CMSA said, noting that the Shenzhou-20 spaceship&#8217;s return mission was a complete success.<\/p>\n<p  >The Shenzhou-23 spaceship, which will take over the rolling backup task, has arrived at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the CMSA added.<\/p>\n<p  >China launched the Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship on April 24, 2025, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission.<\/p>\n<p  >However, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, originally scheduled to return the three astronauts to Earth on Nov. 5, failed to meet the requirements for their safe return, according to the CMSA.<\/p>\n<p  >Tiny cracks have been found in the Shenzhou-20 return capsule&#8217;s viewport window, which are most probably caused by external impact from space debris, the CMSA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return capsule of the Shenzhou-20 spaceship, carrying no astronauts, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in north China&#8217;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 9:34 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). An on-site inspection confirmed that the exterior of the Shenzhou-20 return capsule was generally intact and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}