1、Yang LiweiYang Liwei Chinese Pilot Yuhangyuan. Born 21 June 1965. First Chinese man in space. Personal: Male, Married, One son. Born in Suizhong, Liaoning, China. Bachelors PLA Air Force PLA Air Force PLA Air Force Astronaut Career Astronaut Group:. Active Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 0.89 d

2、ays. Yang Liwei was Chinas first citizen in space. His launch into orbit aboard Shenzhou-5 on 15 October 2003 marked the entry of China into an elite group, consisting only of Russia and the United States, who had the capability to launch human beings off the planet. Yangs name therefore was placed

3、in history next to those of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard. Yang was born in June 1965 in Suizhong County of northeast Chinas Liaoning Province. Friends in his hometown recalled that Yang had dreamed of flying when still a child. He joined the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) in September 1983 a

4、nd entered the No. 8 Aviation College of the PLA Air Force. Yang graduated in 1987 with the equivalent of a bachelors degree. He became a fighter pilot, accumulating 1,350 flight-hours by the time of his first spaceflight in 2003. In January 1998, Yang was selected as a member of the group of Chines

5、e astronauts set to train to fly the Project 921 (later Shenzhou) spacecraft. He was one of 14 chosen from among 1,500 pilot candidates. The team underwent five years of rigid physical, psychological and technical training at the Astronaut Training Base in Beijing. The astronauts received lessons in

6、 aviation dynamics, air dynamics, geophysics, meteorology, astronomy, space navigation, and the design principles and structure of rockets and spacecraft. They also received systematic training in space flight simulators. Yang noted the study was much more difficult than that in college. The astrona

7、uts also had to learn survival skills under extreme conditions in case their capsule landed anywhere on the earth, on land or sea. On September 20, 2003 the 14 astronauts started exercising in the real Shenzhou-5 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Launch Centre. Yang was finally selected in October as one of

8、 three finalists to be the countrys first astronaut. Yang, 168 cm tall and weighing 65 kg, was a lieutenant colonel at the time of his first spaceflight. He had an eight-year-old son. His wife, Zhang Yumei, also served in Chinas space program. Yang was first identified as an astronaut in the May 200

9、3 issue of Fliegerrevue. His was one of 12 new names listed as those of Chinese astronauts in training. The day before the scheduled launch of Shenzhou-5, Chinas first manned flight, he was named in the Hong Kong press as the prime crew member for the flight. Although the first Chinese citizen launc

10、hed aboard a Chinese spacecraft, Yang was preceded into space by the following astronauts either born in China or with Chinese heritage: William Anders (one flight, 6.13 days total time: Apollo 8), born in Hong Kong on 17 October 1933. Certainly the first person born in China to have orbited the moo

11、n! Shannon Lucid, (five flights, total time 223.12 days, STS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79), born in Shanghai on 14 January 1943. Taylor Gun-Jin Wang (one flight, total time 7.01 days: STS-51-B), born in Shanghai on June 16, 1940, an American citizen since 1975. Franklin Chang-Diaz (six flights, total time 52.91 days: STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91) born in Costa Rica, with some Chinese a