BEIJING, June 29 (UPI) -- Three Chinese astronauts have successfully completed the country's first manned space docking mission and returned to Earth Friday.
The return capsule of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying mission commander Jing Haipeng, Lu Wiang and China's first woman astronaut Liu Yang parachuted to the ground in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as planned, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.