Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission


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The crew of the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft were in good health, China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement. "The first manned mission to the (Chinese) space station is a complete success," it said. The taikonauts -- as Chinese astronauts are known -- will undergo a 14-day quarantine before they can go home "because their immune systems may have weakened after the long mission," Huang Weifen, chief designer of China's manned space project told CCTV. The mission was part of China's heavily promoted space programme, which has already seen the nation land a rover on Mars and send probes to...