China Manned Space Program (CMS)

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has visited the Tiangong Space Station.

TSS Visitor

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Gui Haichao, born in November 1986, is the first Chinese civilian in space and was also selected as a member of China's third batch of astronauts in 2020, serving as a payload specialist.

"The word 'astronaut' was sacred and far from me in the past, and I've been dreaming of moving my research work into space one day," he said. "I didn't hesitate to sign up when I learned in 2018 that the country was about to select payload specialists."

With Gui's arrival, the space station will welcome its first payload specialist.

Shenzhou 16

Shenzhou is a Soyuz-derived spacecraft built and flown by China. Larger than its Russian counterpart, Shenzhou is made up of three parts. Like Soyuz, only the reentry module with the crew survives reentry and landing.

Shenzhou

Gui Haichao

China

Crossed Kármán Line 

Zhu Yangzhu, born in September 1986, joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 2005. He was selected in the third batch of the country's astronauts in September 2020.

Shenzhou-16 will be his first space mission, and he will be the first flight engineer entering the CSS.

Zhu Yangzhu

Shenzhou 16 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 7

The first three-person human spaceflight by China saw the crew perform the first Chinese spacewalk. Over three days in space, the crew conducted experiments, deployed a small satellite, and communicated to the ground through China's new data relay satellite, Tianlian I.

Shenzhou 9

Shenzhou 9 was a three-person Chinese spaceflight that became the first Chinese mission to rendezvous and dock to the Tiangong 1 Chinese space station. It marked the first time a Chinese woman flew a space mission. The 13-day flight including 6 days docked to Tiangong 1 and seven days of free flight.

Shenzhou 11

Shenzhou 11 is longest and most-recent Chinese human spaceflight.  Lasting 33 days, its crew visited the Tiangong 2 space station and tested life support equipment and explored how to work for prolonged periods in space.

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