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Who Was China's First Man In Space?

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    Yang Liwei was the first man sent into outer space by the space program of China. His mission, 'Shenzhou 5', made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space. He was selected as a taikonaut candidate in 1998 and has trained for space flight since then.

    Yang was chosen from the final pool of 14 Chinese taikonauts to fly on China's first manned space mission. He is a former fighter pilot in the Aviation Military Unit of the PLA  and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel at the time of his mission. On October 20 2003, he was promoted to full colonel.

    Although he was the first Chinese citizen in space, Yang is not the first person of Chinese origin in space. Shanghai-born Taylor Wang flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-B in 1985, but he had become a United States citizen in 1975.





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