Yang Liwei
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Yang Liwei (born 21 June 1965) 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.
Spaceflight career
In 1998, Yang was chosen as a taikonaut candidate and has been training for space flight since then. He was selected from a field of 14 candidates to fly on China's first manned space mission. He was a former fighter pilot with the PLA's Aviation Military Unit at the time of his deployment and he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel at the time of his deployment. On October 20, 2003, he was promoted to full Colonel. The decision was made in advance of his spaceflight, according to Youth Daily, without Yang being aware of it.
The launch window for Shenzhou 5 was selected to date on October 15, 2003, a day before President Hu Jintao's visit to Thailand for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. At the launch site to control the launch of Shenzhou 5, President Hu was on hand. To avoid negative media in the case of a disaster, the launch was not carried out on live television.
On October 15, 2003, he was launched into space aboard his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft atop a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 09:00 CST (01:00 UTC). Almost nothing was revealed about the Chinese taikonaut candidates before his launch; his selection for the Shenzhou 5 launch was only revealed to the media one day before the launch; the initial announcement was not announced. Nie Haisheng and Zhai Zhigang, the other two potential candidates for the space mission, were both on standby as backup crews on the day of the launch.
Yang Liwei has confirmed the emergence of strange vibrations 120 seconds after launch, which he described as "very uncomfortable." The sounds were later determined to have originated from the launcher rocket. As a result, corrective steps were quickly applied to the configuration of the Shenzhou-6's CZ-2F carrier rocket.
Yang characterized his journey with regular updates on his health; variations of "I feel great" appeared as the capsule floated to the ground after re-entry. When the Shenzhou 5 began its eighth circuit around the Earth, he told his wife, "I feel very well, don't be concerned." He enjoyed specially made shredded pork with garlic, Kung Pao chicken, and eight treasure rice, as well as Chinese herbal tea. During the flight, Yang slept two times in 3 hour intervals. In the middle of the trip, state television broadcast a video of Yang waving a tiny flag of the People's Republic of China and the United Nations' capsule inside.
According to state media, Yang's capsule was issued with a rifle, a sword, and tent in case he landed in the wrong place.
On October 16, 2003 (22:00 UTC), Yang's craft landed in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China's Inner Mongolia, around 06:30 CST), having completed 14 orbits and travelled more than 600 km. Yang was in space for a total of 21 hours, Yang left the capsule about 15 minutes after landing, and Premier Wen Jiabao congratulated him. However, the astronaut's bleeding lips seen in the official images shared led to rumors of a difficult landing that were not confirmed by accounts of people present at the landing site.
Yang Liwei, the first Chinese citizen to fly, is not the first person of Chinese origins in space. In 1985, Shanghai-born Taylor Wang flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-B. Wang, on the other hand, had been a United States citizen since 1975. Taylor Wang was not the first person born in China to fly. William Anders was born in Hong Kong on October 17th, 1933. Anders would be a part of the Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission in 1968.
On October 31, 2003, Yang travelled to Hong Kong, holding talks and sharing his experiences during his six-day stay in the territory. The trip took place coincidently with an exhibit on view of his reentry capsule, spacesuit, and leftover food from his 21-hour journey. He travelled to Macau on November 5th.
Yang received the PRC Central Military Commission's Chairman, Jiang Zemin, on "Space Hero" on November 7th. (CMC). During a ceremony at the Great Hall of People, he was given a badge of honor. The Gagarin medal was given to him by Russia. Yang has been granted an honorary doctorate by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
After him, the asteroid 21064 Yangliwei and the fossil bird Dalingheornis liwei are named.