China's Shenzhou-18 Spacecraft Returns to Earth

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China's Shenzhou-18 spacecraft has returned to earth after spending more than six months in space. The three-member crew landed in the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia.

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00:00China's Shenzhou-18 spacecraft has returned to Earth after more than six months in orbit.

00:05The capsule, containing the mission's three astronauts, landed intact at the Dongfeng

00:09landing site in northern China.

00:11The crew had been living on board China's Tiangong space station since late April, studying

00:16ancient microbes, installing anti-space debris equipment, and breaking the record for China's

00:20longest spacewalk, totaling more than eight hours.

00:24Commander Ye Guangfu also became the country's first astronaut to surpass 365 days in space

00:30As the global space race ramps up, Beijing says it is on track to send a crewed mission

00:35to the moon by 2030, where it plans to build a base.

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