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VETERANActiveCNSACNSA·🇨🇳 China·Born 1986
Zhang Hongzhang
Chinese taikonaut who flew his first mission aboard Shenzhou-20 to the Tiangong space station, conducting science experiments and station maintenance.
30d
Days in Space
1
Missions
0
EVAs
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EVA Time
What they aspire to
He hopes to advance microgravity chemistry and life-science research aboard Tiangong.
Biography
Chinese taikonaut who flew his first mission aboard Shenzhou-20 to the Tiangong space station, conducting science experiments and station maintenance.
Before NASAResearcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences before being selected as a third-batch payload specialist astronaut.
Notable Missions
Shenzhou-20
Beyond the Mission
Causes They Champion
Microgravity science researchCivilian scientific participation in spaceflight
Languages
Mandarin Chinese
Fun fact
He flew alongside crewmates born in three different decades — the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s — making Shenzhou 21 a three-generation Chinese crew.
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