MEETING ON EARTH: Jing Haipeng (center), commander of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, Liu Wang (right) and Liu Yang, China's first woman to enter space, salute in front of the media in Beijing on July 13. After a two-week quarantine and recovery, the three Chinese astronauts who successfully fulfilled China's first manned space docking mission appeared in public that day (ZHA CHUNMING)