Yang Liwei (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; pinyin: Yáng Lìwěi ); born June 21 1965) is a major general and military pilot and China National Space Administration astronaut. In 2003 he became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program. This mission Shenzhou 5 made China the third country to independently send humans into space.
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