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The Shenzhou-17 return capsule landed at the Dongfeng landing site in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region near the Jiuquan spaceport at 5:46 a.m. Eastern (0946 UTC) on 2024-04-30.
The Shenzhou-17 crew took over control of the Tiangong space station from the outgoing Shenzhou-16 crew days after the 2023-10-25 launch.
The Shenzhou-17 crew oversaw the arrival of the Tianzhou-7 cargo resupply mission in January.
The Shenzhou-17 crew departed the Tiangong space station at 8:43 p.m. Eastern on 2024-04-29 (0043 UTC on 2024-04-30).
The Shenzhou-17 crew welcomed the incoming Shenzhou-18 crew aboard Tiangong on 2024-04-25.
Shenzhou-17 conducted 84 in-orbit experiments that produced more than 200 samples.
Shenzhou-17 launched on 2023-10-25 Eastern.
The Shenzhou-17 crew has been operating the Tiangong space station since late October 2023.
Shenzhou-18 is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2024 to replace Shenzhou-17, and Shenzhou-19 is scheduled for late 2024 as a six-month crewed mission to follow Shenzhou-18.
Major Chinese launches in 2023 included the Shenzhou-16 and Shenzhou-17 crewed missions to the Tiangong space station.
Crewmate Jiang Xinlin assisted the Shenzhou-17 EVA operations from inside Tiangong using the space station’s robotic arm.
Shenzhou-17 will receive the Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft at Tiangong in the first half of 2024.
Rendezvous and docking of Shenzhou-17 at Tiangong’s forward docking port completed at 5:46 a.m. on 2023-10-26, 6.5 hours after launch.
A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 11:14 p.m. Eastern on 2023-10-25 (0314 UTC, Oct. 26).
Shenzhou 17 is due to launch on a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan at 11:14 p.m. Eastern on 2023-10-25 (0314 UTC, Oct. 26) and is expected to reach Tiangong 6.5 hours later.