China's second unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 2, was launched January 9, 2001. A monkey, a dog and a rabbit were aboard the life support system, which separated from the orbital module after a week in orbit.
Here's the strange part. Although Chinese officials said the landing was successful, no photos have been released of the capsule, leading some to believe the landing failed. A Swedish Space Center news site reported that one of the connections between capsule and parachute failed. I can't find any videos of Shenzhou 2's launch or landing. The references cited at the end of the Wikipedia.com page have been removed from Space.com's website. So what happened, fellas? The only article I could find on their site that mentioned Shenzhou 2 was the one listed below
The orbital module continued orbiting until August 24 when it re-entered over the western Pacific Ocean.
https://www.space.com/17457-spaceflight-firsts-russia-nasa-china-study.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_2
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