{"id":42035,"date":"2025-11-17T02:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:28:58","slug":"chinese-astronauts-return-from-their-space-station-after-delay-blamed-on-space-debris-damageutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/17\/chinese-astronauts-return-from-their-space-station-after-delay-blamed-on-space-debris-damageutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Astronauts Return From Their Space Station After Delay Blamed on Space Debris Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-180100367\">\n<div id=\"text-180100367\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation&#8217;s space station Friday,&#8221; reports the Associated Press, &#8220;after more than a week&#8217;s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the recently arrived Shenzhou-21, which had ferried a three-person replacement crew to the station, China&#8217;s Manned Space Agency said.<br \/>\nThe original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said Friday&#8230; Their return was delayed for nine days, and their 204-day stay in space was the longest for any astronaut at China&#8217;s space station&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>China developed the Tiangong space station after the country was excluded from the International Space Station over U.S. national security concerns. China&#8217;s space program is controlled by its military.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Chinese #Astronauts #Return #Space #Station #Delay #Blamed #Space #Debris #Damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation&#8217;s space station Friday,&#8221; reports the Associated Press, &#8220;after more than a week&#8217;s delay&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42036,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions\/42036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}