{"id":3996,"date":"2016-11-25T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-astronauts-to-return-home-after-longest-ever-space-mission\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:36:27","slug":"chinese-astronauts-to-return-home-after-longest-ever-space-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-astronauts-to-return-home-after-longest-ever-space-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Astronauts to Return Home After Longest-ever Space Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; The spacecraft Shenzhou-11, which is carrying taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, separated from the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab at 12:41 p.m. Thursday Beijing Time.<\/p>\n<p >The separation marks the beginning of the journey home for the two men, after having lived and worked in Tiangong-2 for 30 days, the longest stay in space by Chinese astronauts.<\/p>\n<p >Before the separation, the astronauts extended their thanks and respect to their ground team and to everyone who had supported China&#8217;s space program.<\/p>\n<p >After the separation, Shenzhou-11 will remain at a point near the space lab before they are given leave by the ground team to embark on their return journey.<\/p>\n<p >Around one day later, the reentry module will descend from an orbit about 393 kilometers above Earth, a true test for Shenzhou-11&#8217;s reentry system.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2 will remain in its orbit and remote experiments will continue until it docks with Tianzhou-1, China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft, which is set to be launched in April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; The spacecraft Shenzhou-11, which is carrying taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, separated from the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab at 12:41 p.m. Thursday Beijing Time. The separation marks the beginning of the journey home for the two men, after having lived and worked in Tiangong-2 for 30 days, the longest [&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-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}