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Title: Chinese Astronauts Return From Their Space Station After Delay Blamed
on Space Debris Damage

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/0...

"Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday,"
reports the Associated Press, "after more than a week's delay because the
return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by
space debris." 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's Manned Space Agency said. The
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... Their return was delayed for nine days, and their 204-
day stay in space was the longest for any astronaut at China's space
station... China developed the Tiangong space station after the country was
excluded from the International Space Station over U.S. national security
concerns. China's space program is controlled by its military.

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