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Zhang Xiaoguang

Zhang Xiaoguang

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Flight record

first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2013.
1Flight
14d 14hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Biography

Zhang Xiaoguang is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He was born in May 1966 in Jinzhou, to a family of Manchu ethnicity and was a squadron commander in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force when he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998. He had accumulated 1000 flight-hours as of 2004. He was selected as part of the backup crew for the Shenzhou 9 mission. In 2013, he was selected to fly Shenzhou 10, the third spaceflight to the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Background

Born in
Baichangmen
Awards
Spaceflight Exploit Medal

From Wikidata.

Flights

Expeditions

  • Shenzhou 10Tiangong 1 · Flight Engineer2013-06-13 – 2013-06-25

Born 1966-05-01 · age 60