Zhai Zhigang is a Chinese People Liberation Army Air Force pilot and astronaut who performed the first spacewalk by a Chinese citizen during the Shenzhou 7 mission in September 2008. He later commanded the Shenzhou 13 mission in 2021 to 2022, a six-month stay aboard the newly assembled Tiangong space station, one of the longest crewed missions in Chinese spaceflight history at the time.
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1966-10-11
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is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
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and Jing Haipeng were selected as the primary crew on Shenzhou 7, with Zhai as commander, on 17 September 2008.
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Zhai Zhigang (Chinese: 翟志刚; pinyin: Zhái Zhìgāng; born 11 October 1966) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut.
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Zhai Zhigang (Chinese: 翟志刚; pinyin: Zhái Zhìgāng; born 11 October 1966) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut.
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