Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to earth Wednesday after a 15-day mission to China's space laboratory, Tianong-1, according to the Chinese State News Agency Xinhua.
The astronauts including one woman traveled on its spacecraft, Shenzhou-10, and the astronauts successfully completed their mission to the space, which included docking exercises, a phone call from their President Xi Jinping and holding a video lecture for students back on earth.
The astronauts landed in a capsule on a grassland in the Inner Mongolia region at around 08:07 local time (00:07 GMT), reported BBC.
Nie Haisheng, commander in chief of the mission, was the first to exit the capsule at 09:31 (01:31 GMT), followed by his two colleagues Wang Yaping and Zhang Xiaoguang.
As it was being aired on the state television, the whole nation including the mission control centre burst into applause after the astronauts were reported to be safe and sound.
This is the second space mission for Nie Haisheng. He has spent over 470 hours in space, more than other Chinese astronaut.
Wang Yaping is China's second woman to go into space and the country's first astronaut to give a science lecture from space.
The Beijing government is planning a permanent manned space station, according to reports.
