Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2003.
1Flight
21h 22mTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Yang Liwei is a major general, military pilot, and China National Space Administration astronaut. In October 2003, he became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program. This mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send humans into space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Suizhong County
- Education
- Tsinghua University; PLA Air Force Aviation University
- Awards
- Spaceflight Exploit Medal; honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Long March 2F | Shenzhou-5October 15, 2003
Born 1965-06-21 · age 61