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Chinese Space Agency Says Astronauts Stranded in Tiangong Space Station Are in ‘Good Condition’, but No Date Announced Yet for Their Rescue

“For here/Am I sitting in a tin can/Far above the world/Planet Earth is blue/And there’s nothing I can do” (Space Oddity – David Bowie) Around the planet, people were drawn to the news that three Chinese taikonauts (their term for astronauts) are stranded in orbit aboard the Tiangong space station, after it was discovered that their re-entry capsule was damaged by space junk.