The spacecraft and its three crew were sent into space in October last year to work on China's "Tiangong" permanently inhabited space station. Shenzhou crewed spaceflights have been a regular fixture of the country's space program for the past two decades and have increased in frequency in recent years after China officially completed "Tiangong" in November 2022.

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Shenzhou crewed spaceflights have been a regular fixture of the country's space program for the past two decades and have increased in frequency in recent years.