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ELITEActiveCNSACNSA·🇨🇳 China·Born 1975
Tang Hongbo
Flew on the first Tiangong station crew (Shenzhou 12) and later commanded Shenzhou 17.
279d
Days in Space
2
Missions
0
EVAs
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EVA Time
Inspirations
What they aspire to
He hopes to lead longer-duration crews on the Tiangong space station.
Biography
Flew on the first Tiangong station crew (Shenzhou 12) and later commanded Shenzhou 17. Accumulated over 279 days in space across two long-duration missions.
Before NASAPLA Air Force pilot from a Hunan farming family who joined the air force in 1995 and was selected to the PLA Astronaut Corps in 2010.
Notable Missions
Shenzhou 12Shenzhou 17
Beyond the Mission
Causes They Champion
Promoting Chinese space station sciencePublic education on EVA operations
Languages
Mandarin Chinese
Awards & Honors
- Heroic Astronaut
- Spaceflight Merit Medal (Third Class)
Fun fact
On Shenzhou 12 in 2021 he and Liu Boming carried out the first-ever EVA from China's new Tiangong space station.
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