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Yang Liwei (born June 21, 1965, in Suizhong County) is a Chinese male astronaut and fighter pilot. He holds the rank of major general and is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Educated at Tsinghua University, he serves as a member of the crew for the Shenzhou 5 mission. His time in space totaled 1,282 units.
Yang Liwei speaks Chinese and has authored works, including the book *Li Bai he Du Fu*. He is referenced by 163 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Li Bai he Du Fu
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,805x
- featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features
· 2013 · cited 26,554x
- A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
· 2020 · cited 22,157x
- SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
· 2016 · cited 21,841x
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,679x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1965-06-21 ) 21 June 1965 (age 60) , Suizhong , Huludao , Liaoning , China
- Alma mater
- Air Force Aviation University ( BEng ), Tsinghua University ( PhD )
- Current occupation
- Vice Chief Designer, China Manned Space Engineering
- Previous occupation
- People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter pilot
- Status
- Retired
- Rank
- Major general
- Time in space
- 21 hours, 22 minutes, 45 seconds
- Selection
- Chinese Group 1 (1998)
- Missions
- Shenzhou 5
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Yang Liwei (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; born 21 June 1965) is a Chinese major general, former military pilot, and former taikonaut of the People's Liberation Army.
In October 2003, Yang 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. He is currently a vice chief designer of China Manned Space Engineering.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yang Liwei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.