Historic nighttime landing for China’s Shenzhou-14 crew after Tiangong space station mission

China’s Shenzhou-14 crew landed on Earth on December 4, 2022, after accomplishing notching up two historic firsts for the Chinese space programme. During their 183 days in space, the three-astronaut crew oversaw the final construction stage of the basic structure of the Tiangong space station. Before heading home, they also handed over control of the station to the three members of Shenzhou-15 who had arrived days earlier for the nation’s first in-orbit crew handover.