Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, Gui Haichao, welcome home! The Shenzhou 16 astronaut crew exited the spacecraft safely and smoothly

At 9:10 am Beijing time on October 31, 2023, Shenzhou 16 astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao all exited the spacecraft safely and smoothly and are in good health.

On October 31, the return capsule of the Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang

At 7:21, the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center issued a return command through the ground control station, and the orbital module and the return module of the Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft were successfully separated. After that, the spacecraft's return brake engine was ignited, the return module was separated from the propulsion module, and the return module landed successfully. The search and rescue team responsible for the search and recovery mission discovered the target in time and arrived at the landing site.

Astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao all exited the spacecraft safely and smoothly

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So far, astronaut Jing Haipeng has successfully completed his fourth space flight, with a total of more than 200 days of in-orbit missions, making him the Chinese astronaut with the most flight missions so far. Zhu Yangzhu, my country's first space flight engineer, and Gui Haichao, China's first payload expert, have also successfully completed their first flight, marking that all three types of astronauts in my country have completed flight assessments and practical tests, laying a good foundation for the subsequent development and construction of the project and large-scale space science experiments.

This mission is the first manned flight mission of my country's manned space program entering the space station application and development stage. With the close cooperation of the astronaut crew and ground scientific research personnel, a number of space science experiments have been carried out in human factors engineering, aerospace medicine, life ecology, biotechnology, materials science, fluid physics, aerospace technology and other space science experiments. Important progress has been made in the fields of space life sciences and human research, microgravity physics and new space technologies, taking an important step in the transformation of manned space engineering from construction to application, and from input to output.

Comprehensive sources: Xinhua News Agency, CCTV News, China Manned Spaceflight, etc.