China launches Shenzhou X manned spacecraft with three astronauts.
With the safe return to Earth on Wednesday of three astronauts after a successful 15-day mission, China moved a step closer to realizing its space dream.
Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region C Y Leung on Wednesday congratulated the country on the successful completion of the Shenzhou X manned spacecraft mission.
The completion of the Shenzhou X and Tiangong-1 mission has marked a staged success in achieving the second strategic goal of China's manned space program, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said Wednesday.
The selection of Chinese astronauts to carry out the country's space missions is following strict rules, an official in charge of astronaut training said.
China will continue to carry out development and construction of space lab and plans to launch Tiangong-2 space lab around 2015, an aerospace official said Wednesday.
The Shenzhou X space mission's astronauts said they "feel good" after they left the spacecraft's reentry module on Wednesday morning.
The Shenzhou X spacecraft completed a manual docking with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module on Sunday.
Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-X with three astronauts onboard will leave the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module and return to the Earth at 8 am Wednesday.
China's Shenzhou X spacecraft will return to the Earth at about 8 am Wednesday as scheduled.
Three astronauts left the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module on Tuesday morning after a 12-day stay.
President Xi Jinping said that the Chinese people will take bigger strides in space exploration, during his talk to astronauts aboard the orbiting space module Tiangong-1 on Monday.
Three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft re-entered the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module after completing a manual docking procedure on Sunday.
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