China's record-breaking astronauts are back on Earth after six months in orbit

Chinese astronauts -- or taikonauts, as the country calls them -- Zhai Zhigang, Ye Guangfu and Wang Yaping have returned to Earth after spending 183 days in space. That's the country's longest crewed mission to date so far, with the taikonauts spending those six months aboard Tianhe, the living module of China's Tiangong space station. As Space notes, Wang Yaping was also the first female taikonaut to live aboard Tianhe and the first Chinese woman to go on a spacewalk. The taikonauts were part o...