YL
Yang Liwei
CNSAChineseRetired
First Chinese astronaut (taikonaut) in space (2003)
Missions
1
Time in space
1d
Spacewalks
0
First flight
2003
Career span
—
Biography
First Chinese person in space. Yang orbited Earth 14 times aboard Shenzhou 5 in October 2003, making China the third nation to independently send a human to space.
Career Timeline
15 Oct 2003First spaceflight