Yang Liwei Astronaut
Yang Liwei (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; pinyin: Yáng Lìwěi ); born June 21, 1965) is a major general and military pilot and China National Space Administration astronaut. In 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.
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| Time in space | 21 hours 22 minutes |