Cai Xuzhe

Cai Xuzhe (Chinese: 蔡旭哲あきら; born May 1976)^[2] is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

Biography

Cai was born in Shenzhou, Hengshui, Hebei province in 1976.^[2] His grandparents come from a scholarly family, teaching in the downtown county and village, respectively, and were veteran party members before the founding of the People's Republic of China.^[3] His third uncle was a soldier.^[3] Cai graduated from the Baoding Branch of the Changchun Flight Academy of the Air Force.^[3] He served as a fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, and was subsequently selected to be an astronaut in 2010.^[4] His name was revealed as part of Group 2 in 2011.^[5]

He was on board the Tiangong space station, as part of the Shenzhou 14 mission.^[6] He completed two spacewalks on 17 September and 17 November both with Chen Dong.

Cai married Wang Yanqing (王おう颜晴), who is a nurse in a PLA military hospital.^[3]

^ "Taikonaut Biography: Cai Xuzhe". 27 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b "神しん舟ふね十じゅう四號三位航天員陳冬、劉りゅう洋ひろし、蔡旭哲あきら簡介" (in Chinese). 4 June 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Zhan Kang (占うらない康やすし) (2002). 蔡旭哲あきら：十じゅう二年等待终圆太空梦 [Cai Xuzhe: twelve years of waiting have finally fulfilled the space dream]. Celebrities' Biographies (in Chinese). 602. Zhengzhou, Henan: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House: 17–20. ISSN 1002-6282.
^ "Cosmonaut Selection: China". spacefacts.de. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "Names of China's Secret Astronauts Revealed by Autographed Envelope". Space.com. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
^ "Cai Xuzhe". Twitter. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

This Chinese biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about an astronaut is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.