A few hours ago, the Shenzhou 20 spacecraft landed after spending 270 days docked at the Chinese Tiangong space station, where it arrived on April 24, 2025, carrying three taikonauts: Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie. The Shenzhou 20 departed the station about nine hours earlier and landed at a site called Dongfeng in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The three taikonauts returned to Earth on November 14, 2025, aboard the Shenzhou 21 spacecraft because the Shenzhou 20 suffered small fractures to a window following the impact of what was likely space debris and was deemed unsafe for human transport. Despite this, the preliminary inspection showed that the Shenzhou 20 is generally in good condition.