At 0433, October 17, 2005, the Shenzhou 6 capsule, after completing its 115-hour-and-32-minute space mission for a true manned space scientific experiment, made a smooth landing at the prescribed site. Two astronauts, FEI Junlong and NIE Haisheng, returned home safely.
At 0343, Beijing time, the Shenzhou 6 capsule, while flying over the southern Atlantic Ocean, received a return command from the Beijing control center via a tracking vessel waiting there. At 0344, the re-entry capsule separated from the orbital module, and then entered the re-entry orbit with the help of an engine. The large screen of the Beijing control center showed increasingly descended altitudes of the re-entry capsule. 0410, the capsule braved through the aerosphere, and entered the last landing phase only 10 km away from the ground. The re-entry capsule ejected out three parachutes taking care of navigation, speed-down, and landing one after another. At 0433, the capsule made its successful landing at the Amugulang prairies in the middle of Inner Mongolia. Astronauts FEI Junlong and NIE Haisheng walked out of the capsule, celebrating the complete success of the manned space mission.
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