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Ren Junchuan / Xinhua via Reuters
Chinese astronauts (left to right) Liu Wang, Jing Haipeng, and Liu Yang salute in front of the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on June 29, 2012.
Wang Jianmin / Xinhua via AP
the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft lands safely in Siziwang Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Friday.
Ren Junchuan / Xinhua via AP
Members of the search team approach the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Friday.
Space.com reports: Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending 13 days on a historic space mission that made their country only the third nation ever to dock a manned spacecraft to another craft in orbit.
The Shenzhou 9 space capsule landed at about 10 p.m. ET (10 a.m. Friday, Beijing time) in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. The astronauts left the Tiangong 1 prototype space lab module a day earlier. Continue reading the full story.
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China's first female astronaut and two other crew members emerged smiling from a capsule that returned safely to Earth from a 13-day mission. Msnbc.com's Craig Melvin reports.
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Picture says it all; "WOW we made it back! It appears they are very relieved to actually have survived the re-entry furnace in their thick steel ball (capsule). The space ball didn't fair so well, extra crispy right, one and done! It resembles the "early days" of shooting chimps, dogs and people up into space and amazingly accounting for their survival upon return. Sketchy as it is the old steel ball re-entry still works with parachutes.