Shenzhou-12 astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo landed at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sept. 17, 2021 after a three month mission aboard the new Tiangong space station.
Tianzhou-3 cargo craft launched atop a Long March-7 Y4 rocket from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in China's Hainan Province on Sept. 20, 2021.
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the Progress 79 cargo resupply spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station on Oct. 27, 2021.