Who was the first astronaut in China?

Yang Liwei, male, Han nationality, born in Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, was born on June 2, 2005. University degree, China producer party member. Major General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, special astronaut.

China trained the first generation of astronauts, and China was the first man to go into space. Yang Liwei flew safely in the former Air Force 1350 hours. At 9: 00 Beijing time on June 65438+1October 65438+May 2003, Yang Liwei went into space for the first time on the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried by the Long March II F rocket, which symbolized that China's space industry had taken a big step forward and was of milestone significance.

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Shenzhou 5 manned space mission is mainly to comprehensively evaluate the manned environment, obtain the relevant data of astronauts' living environment and safety, and comprehensively evaluate the working performance, reliability, safety and coordination between systems of the project. The spacecraft carried an astronaut for about a day and returned around the earth 14.

Astronauts can manually reissue important instructions such as separation of ship and arrow and deployment of windsurfing according to pre-specified procedures and ground instructions. The spacecraft has the ability of autonomous emergency return, manual return and return on the second and third days.

An astronaut is the commander and pilot of the Shenzhou 5 mission. During the flight, the astronauts did not enter the orbital module and take off their spacesuits. According to the pre-specified procedures and ground command, they manually reissued instructions such as separation of ship and arrow, deployment of windsurfing board and push-back separation, and completed the work of spacecraft state monitoring, blood pressure measurement, photography, eating and sleeping.

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