JIUQUAN (China), May 1 (Xinhua) — The three astronauts of the Shenzhou-19 crewed mission were all out of the return capsule on Wednesday afternoon, and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) declared the mission a success, Xinhua reported.
At 12:17 p.m. (Beijing Time), the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre issued a return command through the ground station, and the orbital capsule of the Shenzhou-19 spaceship separated from the return capsule.
Then the brake engine ignited, and the return capsule separated from the propulsion capsule. The return capsule touched down at 1:08 p.m. at the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the CMSA said.
By 2:02 p.m., the Shenzhou-19 crew had all left the return capsule. They had spent 183 days in orbit and are all in good health, the CMSA said.
