SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Three Chinese astronauts left a space station module on Saturday on a spacecraft bound for Earth, Chinese state television reported on Saturday, completing the fifth of 11 missions needed to finish China’s first space station by the end of the year.
The astronauts – Zhai Zhigang, Ye Guangfu and a female crew member Wang Yaping – left the Tianhe space station module on the Shenzhou-13 probe, China Central Television reported.
The astronauts spent 183 days in space, CCTV reported.
(Reporting by Andrew Galbraith in Shanghai and Liangping Gao in Beijing)
