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Yang Liwei (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; born 21 June 1965) is a Chinese major general, former military pilot, and former taikonaut of the People's Liberation Army. In October 2003, Yang became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program .
Shenzhou 5 was launched at 09:00 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a launch base in the Gobi Desert in Gansu province, entering orbit 343 kilometres (213 mi; 185 nmi) above Earth at 09:10 (UTC+08:00) with astronaut Yang Liwei, a 38-year-old lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army and former fighter pilot.
Yang Liwei: 杨利伟 Shenzhou 5 (October 15, 2003) First Chinese national in space. First solo person in space who was not flown on a Soviet/Russian or American spacecraft. Fei Junlong: 费俊龙 Shenzhou 6 (October 12–16, 2005) Shenzhou 15 (November 29, 2022–June 3, 2023) Commander of the first two-person Chinese crew in space. Nie ...
When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history making moment that declared his country’s arrival as an emerging space power.
Chinese three-person Earth orbital spacecraft. Shenzhou is China's first crewed spacecraft. On 15 October 2003, Yang Liwei was carried into space by Shenzhou 5 becoming China's first Taikonaut. [5] The spacecraft has gone on to fly crews to China's Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 space labs.
Shenzhou-18 marks China's 13th crewed mission to space since Yang Liwei's solo spaceflight in October 2003. Yang was the first Chinese national ever to reach space. (Reporting by Albee Zhang and ...
At 587 seconds after taking off, the spaceship separated from the rocket and entered an elliptical orbit with an inclination of 42.4°, the perigee height of 199.14 km and the apogee height of 347.8 km. [14] Yang became the first Chinese launched into space with Chinese launch vehicle and spacecraft. At 22:23 UTC on 15 October 2003, the re ...
When he was alone in a spacecraft in 2003, astronaut Yang Liwei reportedly heard a "knock" despite being alone. Liwei was the first man China sent to space, so there's no question that he was by ...