戳视频回顾3名航天员的“出差”生活↓
视频来源：央视网
On Sept 16, The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft, with astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo on board, had successfully separated from China's Space Station. The spacecraft will head back to earth on Sept 17. Before the separation the astronaut crew, with the cooperation of ground scientific and technical personnel, completed a series of pre-evacuation tasks such as setting the space station assembly, sorting and downloading experimental data, and clearing and transferring the orbiting materials.
The Shenzhou-12 crew spent 90 days in the Tianhe module, the astronauts' "home in space", setting a new record for a Chinese manned space mission in a single flight.
The Shenzhou-12 spaceship completed circumnavigation and radial rendezvous tests at 1:38 p.m. (Beijing Time) Thursday, and the three astronauts will start their way home. The tests successfully verified the radial rendezvous technology, laying an important technical foundation for the following manned missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The spaceship will return as planned. The three astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo will begin their journey home, after living and working in the space station core module Tianhe for 90 days, the longest stay in space by Chinese astronauts, the CMSA said.
戳视频了解神舟十二号飞船
从分离到返回全流程↓
视频来源：央视新闻
One of the main tasks for the three crew members before coming back to Earth is preparing their bodies." We need to increase physical activities, training our muscles, bones, and heart and lung functions to prepare for the impacts when entering the atmosphere and hitting on the ground, and to readjust to Earth's environment," Nie Haisheng, commander of the three-man crew, told China Central Television in a video interview last month.
视频来源：央视新闻
It is expected to touch down in the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A search and rescue team from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert recently conducted drills at the landing site for the upcoming return of the Shenzhou-12 crew.
综合来源：新华网，China Daily，央视新闻，CGTN
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