Zhang Xiaoguang

Zhang Xiaoguang
Born	May 1966 (1966-05) (age 57) Jinzhou, Liaoning
Nationality	Chinese
Space career
PLAAC astronaut
Previous occupation	PLAAF fighter pilot
Time in space	14 days, 14 hours, 29 minutes
Selection	Chinese Group 1
Missions	Shenzhou 10

Zhang Xiaoguang (simplified Chinese: 张晓光; traditional Chinese: 張曉光; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎoguāng; born May 1966) is a Chinese military pilot and taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

Biography

He was born in May 1966 in Jinzhou, to a family of Manchu ethnicity and was a squadron commander in the People's Liberation Army Air Force when he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998. He had accumulated 1000 flight-hours as of 2004. He was selected as part of the backup crew for the Shenzhou 9 mission.^[1] In 2013, he was selected to fly Shenzhou 10, the third spaceflight to the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1.^[2]

Career

Shenzhou 10 was launched on 11 June 2013, at 09:38 UTC (17:38 local time) on a Long March 2F rocket.^[3] It docked to the Tiangong-1 space station, and the crew spent 12 days on board. Zhang returned to Earth on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:07 UTC. Total mission duration was 14 days 14 hours and 29 minutes.^[4]

See also

• List of Chinese astronauts
• Chinese space programme

References

• Zhang Xiaoguan at the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Accessed 23 July 2005.
• Spacefacts biography of Zhang Xiaoguan

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