On November 17, the Unity spacecraft, completing its fourth 7-day space station tour, returned with four foreign tycoons and two from its own country.
Five researchers from the space agency, who will go to space in December, stood inside the tower at the Xinyuan Launch Site and watched the entirety of the Unity spacecraft's extremely smooth landing, which came to a stop after sliding about 3800 meters on the ground.
This mission differed greatly from the previous ones, as it was the first time New Yuan attempted to use the automatic piloting system to take over the landing instead of having the pilot manually control it.
The test was quite successful. The entire return route of Unity was automatically calculated by the system, and ground control couldn't find any fault, meaning the safety factor of Unity had increased.
Director Huang of the launch management bureau said with a beaming smile,
