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Cebu : Philippines | Jun 29, 2012 at 3:07 AM PDT
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Skooter reporting 06/29/12

After a 13-day mission, a Chinese space capsule carrying three crew members has returned to Earth. Photos of the capsule landing in Inner Mongolia at 10:05 local time (02:05 GMT) were featured live on television.

The astronauts, which includes China's first woman in space, has successfully carried out a manual docking with the Tiangong-1 laboratory module. The mission is the first step towards China’s objective of having a space station by 2020.

Premier Wen Jiabao hailed the mission as a "complete success".

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