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6 months agoScience
A Piece of Space Junk Hit Their Ride Home. What Does This Mean for Space Exploration?
Orbital debris struck Shenzhou 20, delaying astronaut return and illustrating growing collision risk as space junk proliferates from launches, breakups, and collisions.
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6 months agoScience
China Says Mystery Object Appears to Have Struck Ship That Its Space Station Astronauts Were Supposed to Return Home In
Three astronauts' return from Tiangong was postponed after the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft was suspected to have been struck by orbital debris, highlighting growing space-junk risks.
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6 months agoChina's Astronaut Woes Are Far from Over
Three Chinese astronauts who had been stranded for days in space after a suspected piece of space junk hit their spacecraft are back on Earth, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSE) announced on Friday. The agency also revealed that it had found tiny cracks in one of the windows of the crew's Shenzou 20 return capsulerendering it unusable. The astronauts instead returned onboard the Shenzhou 21 spacecraft, which had originally been used by Shenzou 20's replacement crew.
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