{"id":5361,"date":"2011-11-18T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/shenzhou-8-returns-after-docking-mission\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:09:14","slug":"shenzhou-8-returns-after-docking-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/shenzhou-8-returns-after-docking-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhou-8 Returns after Docking Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 landed in north China Thursday evening, after completing the country&#8217;s first-ever space docking mission.<\/p>\n<p>The re-entry module of the spacecraft parachuted down at a landing site in Siziwang Banner (county) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at around 7:30 p.m., marking the end of the 49-day space docking mission.<\/p>\n<p>Launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov. 1, the Shenzhou-8 first rendezvoused and docked with the space lab module Tiangong-1 two days later.<\/p>\n<p>The two joint vessels orbited Earth for 12 days and conducted another docking after a brief disengagement on Nov. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiangong-1, which blasted off from the Jiuquan launch center on Sept. 29, will remain in orbit to await future docking attempts with the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At least one of the two docking missions will take astronauts into space, according to Wu Ping, spokeswoman of China&#8217;s manned space program.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 landed in north China Thursday evening, after completing the country&#8217;s first-ever space docking mission. The re-entry module of the spacecraft parachuted down at a landing site in Siziwang Banner (county) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at around 7:30 p.m., marking the end of the 49-day space [&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-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}