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Zhai zhigang biography

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Zhai Zhigang

  • Date of Birth: 10/10/1966
  • Status: Active
  • First Flight: 09/25/2008
  • Last Flight: 10/15/2021
  • In Space: No

Launches

Spacewalks

Shenzhou 7 EVA

The spacewalk began at 09/27/2008 08:38 UTC and ended at 09/27/2008 09:00 UTC on the Low Earth Orbit for a total of 22 minutes.

Shenzhou 13 EVA 1

The spacewalk began at 11/07/2021 10:51 UTC and ended at 11/07/2021 17:16 UTC on the Tiangong Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 25 minutes.

Shenzhou 13 EVA 2

The spacewalk began at 12/26/2021 10:44 UTC and ended at 12/26/2021 16:55 UTC on the Tiangong Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 11 minutes.

Zhai Zhigang, a China astronaut affiliated with the government agency China National Space Administration, embarked on 2 space flights and engaging in 3 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.

Zhai Zhigang (born October 10, 1966) is a major general in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. During the Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, he became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk.

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Zhai Zhigang

ASTRONAUT

1966 - Today

Zhai Zhigang

Zhai Zhigang (Chinese: 翟志刚; pinyin: Zhái Zhìgāng; born 11 October 1966) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut. During the Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, he became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zhai Zhigang has received more than 212,666 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Zhai Zhigang is the 466th most popular astronaut (down from 254th in 2019), the 1,192nd most popular biography from China (down from 905th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Chinese Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Zhai Zhigang ranks 466

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China Daily
biography
(26 Sep 08)When astronaut Zhai Zhigang was a middle school student, he wrote: "I have a dream to fly into outer space so I can get a good look at Earth." This dream came true nearly three decades later, when the Shenzhou VII spacecraft lifted off from Gansu province last night with Zhai and two other astronauts aboard. And by tomorrow, Zhai would become the first Chinese to walk in outer space. He failed to be selected in two previous Shenzhou missions.
     "The worst-case scenario for me is becoming a real spaceman - that is, never coming back again once I get out of the spacecraft," Zhai said in an interview on Wednesday.But for me, the chance of that happening is only 0 percent," he said, smiling.
     In addition to a 40-minute spacewalk, Zhai would also get the chance to have a private space-to-earth conversation with his family in Heilongjiang province. But he regretted he would not be able to talk to his mother, Jia Guizhi, who died five years ago. He might not have ever been able to make his dream come tr

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