Oct 17 2005
From The Space Library
The crew members of China's Shenzhou 6 returned to Earth safely, landing at 8:33 p.m. (GMT) at Siziwang Banner in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. During the five-day mission, which was China's second piloted space mission, the Shenzhou 6 had flown 3.25 million kilometers (2 million miles) in low Earth orbit. Although the CNSA provided few details about the mission, Chinese news outlets reported that crew members Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng had practiced several procedures that astronauts must perform when living in the environment of space, such as changing their spacesuits, testing their blood pressure, and moving about the spacecraft. (China National Space Administration, “Shenzhou-6 Spacecraft Lands Safely,” news release, 17 October 2005, http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/54429.html (accessed 16 July 2009); Xinhua News Agency, “China's Shenzhou-6 Spacecraft Lands Safely After Successful Mission,” 17 October 2005.)
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