{"id":284924,"date":"2025-11-11T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284924\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:22:09","slug":"china-preparing-to-bring-home-astronauts-stranded-on-tiangong-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284924\/","title":{"rendered":"China preparing to bring home astronauts stranded on Tiangong space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two people familiar with the crewed space programme said Shenzhou-22, originally built for the next crew rotation, was being prepared and stocked at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The China Manned Space Engineering (CMSE) office said on Tuesday \u201cemergency plans and measures have been immediately activated in line with the principle of \u2018life above all, safety first\u2019,\u201d but did not state explicitly what the plans were.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shenzhou-20, the vessel that was meant to bring the crew home, is now likely to return to Earth without the three astronauts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The damage it suffered after hitting the debris was not considered serious and it could safely remain in orbit, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBut re-entry exposes the craft to extreme heat and other stresses, so the team has decided to play it safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people familiar with the crewed space programme said Shenzhou-22, originally built for the next crew rotation, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[150419,150423,150420,93591,3631,150421,150425,718,79,121476,150424,193,74158,150422],"class_list":{"0":"post-284924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-chen-dong","9":"tag-chen-zhongrui","10":"tag-china-manned-space-agency","11":"tag-gobi-desert","12":"tag-international-space-station","13":"tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","14":"tag-landspaces-zhuque-3","15":"tag-nasa","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-shenzhou-20","18":"tag-shenzhou-22","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-tiangong","21":"tag-wang-jie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}