BEIJING – Three astronauts who lived for 90 days on China’s space station departed Thursday in preparation for returning to Earth.
The national space agency said Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo boarded the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and undocked from the space station at 8:56 a.m.
State broadcaster CCTV aired footage of the astronauts securing packages inside their spacecraft, which is due to parachute to a location in the Gobi Desert near the Jiuquan launch center today.
The astronauts have already set China’s record for the most time spent in space.(AP)
