Yang Liwei, born June 21, 1965 in the Liaoning province of China, is the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program. He was launched on October 15, 2003 in Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, making China the third country to send humans into space independently.
Although he was the first Chinese citizen in space, he is the second Chinese astronaut. Taylor Wang, born in Shanghai flew on Challenger (STS-51-B) in April 1985, but had become a U.S. citizen in 1975.
He was promoted to Major General in 2008 and has not been in space since.
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