After five months in space, the three taikonauts Zhu Yangzhu, Gui Haichao and Jing Haipeng have returned to Earth. The return capsule of the Shenzhou 16 spacecraft, slowed down by a large parachute, landed on Tuesday in the Gobi Desert – more precisely, at the Dongfeng landing site in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. State television broadcast the footage live. This marks the second crew change since the space station began operations earlier this year. China continues to push ahead with its space program and, like the United States, plans to send humans to the moon again. The People’s Republic’s first manned lunar mission is planned for 2030.