Deng Qingming (; born 16 March 1966) is a Chinese
People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps
The People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC; ), also known as the Chinese Astronaut Corps (), is a Beijing-based sub-corps-level People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) unit directly under the PLASSF Space Systems Depa ...
(PLAAC)
taikonaut selected as part of the
Shenzhou program
The China Manned Space Program (CMS; ), also known as Project 921 () is a space program developed by the People's Republic of China and run by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), designed to develop and enhance human spaceflight capabilities f ...
.
Biography
He was born in the
Yihuang County
Yihuang County () is a county of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic o ...
,
Jiangxi
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province of
China. A
fighter pilot in the
People's Liberation Army Air Force
The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Peo ...
, he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998.
He was announced as a backup member of
Shenzhou 9
Shenzhou 9 () was the fourth crewed spacecraft flight of China's Shenzhou program, launched at 18:37:24 CST (10:37:24 UTC), 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first crewed mission and expedition to dock with the Tiangong-1 ...
,
Shenzhou 10
Shenzhou 10 () was a crewed spaceflight of China's Shenzhou program that was launched on 11 June 2013. It was China's fifth crewed space mission. The mission had a crew of three astronauts: Nie Haisheng, who was mission commander and previous ...
,
Shenzhou 11
Shenzhou 11 was a crewed spaceflight of the Shenzhou program of China, launched on 17 October 2016 (16 October UTC) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It was China's sixth crewed space mission, at 33 days, it was the longest until the ...
and
Shenzhou 12 before finally being selected as one of the three crew members of
Shenzhou 15 in November 2022.
See also
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List of Chinese astronauts
References
Deng Qingmingat the
Encyclopedia Astronautica
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. Accessed 23 July 2005.
Spacefacts biography of Deng Qingming
Shenzhou program astronauts
People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps
Living people
People's Liberation Army Air Force personnel
1966 births
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