Chinese astronauts face delayed return to Earth after craft possibly hit by debris

A radical of Chinese astronauts faces a delayed instrumentality to Earth aft their spacecraft was believed to beryllium struck by a tiny portion of debris

BEIJING -- A radical of Chinese astronauts faces a delayed instrumentality to Earth aft their spacecraft was believed to beryllium struck by a tiny portion of debris.

Their return, primitively scheduled for Wednesday, volition beryllium pushed backmost to an unspecified date, according to authorities broadcaster CCTV, which offered nary further details.

The 3 astronauts from the Shenzhou-20 ngo flew to the Tiangong abstraction presumption successful April and were finishing their six-month rotation. The radical consists of squad person Chen Dong, combatant aviator Chen Zhongrui and technologist Wang Jie.

Their replacements connected the Shenzhou-21 ngo had successfully docked onto the space presumption connected Saturday.

China has made dependable advancement with its abstraction program since 2003. It has built its ain abstraction presumption and has a extremity of landing a idiosyncratic connected the satellite by 2030.

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