BEIJING (AP) — The fifth batch of experimental clinical samples from China’s Tiangong space station has arrived in Beijing, following the return of the Shenzhou XVI team on Tuesday.
Samples from 19 clinical experiments, weighing about 25 kilograms, liver cells, proteins and nucleic acids, Arabidopsis plants, rice seeds, radiation-resistant microbes, and some chemical materials were brought back to Earth.
It was handed over to the Center for Technology and Engineering for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Scientists will conduct life and tissue experiments on the effects of a microgravity environment on those samples, the academy said.
The return capsule of the manned Shenzhou XVI spacecraft, carrying taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, landed at the Dongfeng landing point in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning after completing a five-month project on the space station.