Shenzhu returns to Earth after a successful mission IX spatial

The astronauts stayed about 50 minutes in the capsule to begin become accustomed to return to Earth and gravity.

The three astronauts Shenzhu IX mission, including a woman for the first time, landed on Friday in Inner Mongolia, northwest China, following a successful 13-day mission, according to state TV footage CCTV.

Television showed as men rescue teams rushed to the landing sites at 10:00 am local, in a desert area, and then a doctor penetrated the capsule resting on its side. Astronauts, which the agency New China "in good condition", would remain about 50 minutes in the capsule to begin acclimating to return to Earth and gravity, according to the television. Shenzhu IX mission allowed to proceed to the first orbit coupling performed by manual China and marks an important stage in manned flights program that seeks to give this country an inhabited space station in 2020.

Among the three "taikonauts" participants in the most ambitious space mission in the history of China was the first woman sent into space by the country, Liu Yang, new heroine for his more than a billion citizens. On Sunday, China managed to carry out his first manual coupling between Shenzhu IX ("Divine Vessel") and module Tiangong-1 (" Heavenly Palace "), in Earth orbit, the main task of the crew of the fourth Chinese inhabited space mission. The maneuver is very delicate. Both vehicles spun around the Earth at about 28,000 km / h and could destroy each other in case of collision. "It was the longest space mission to China and complex," said Morris Jones, an expert of Chinese space program based in Australia. 

The spatial domain citations in LEO are a crucial stage in the conquest of space that Russians and Americans exceeded the sixties. The Chinese program of manned space flight, one of the great pride of the country whose priority regain its technological backwardness , aims to create in a decade a space station where the crew can live for several months, following the model of the former Russian space station Mir or the International Space Station (ISS). China has invested 2,400 million euros in this program from Shenzhu VII, released in 2008, until the next mission, Shenzhu X, a very modest sum considered. China is also carrying out a program to reach the moon called "Chang'e" and already launched two lunar probes (2007 and 2010) with the aim of being the first Asian country to set foot on Earth's satellite.