Beijing extends Mars mission lead; stranded crew returns: China’s year in space
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From the US-China race to bring rocks back from Mars to a ‘tit-for-tat’ orbital stand-off, here are some of the year’s most notable space stories.

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  1. Stranded Chinese astronauts return home from space station mission Three astronauts whose return to Earth from China’s Tiangong space station was delayed after a suspected debris strike touched down on November 14 at the Dongfeng landing site in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
  2. China’s Shenzhou 20 debris crisis: a catalyst for space war – or…

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