Chen Dong

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Chen Dong
Country: China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Organization: Space Corps of the People's Liberation Army
selected on March 2010
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 16, 2016
Landing: 18th November 2016
Time in space: 32d 6h 29min
Space flights

Chen Dong ( Chinese  陳冬  /  陈冬 , Pinyin Chén Dōng ; born December 12, 1978 in Luoyang , Henan , China ) is a Chinese military pilot and spaceman .

Chen joined the Air Force of the People's Republic of China in August 1997 and the CCP in April 1999 . He has over 1500 flight hours as a fighter pilot and achieved the rank of Colonel. Chen is a graduate engineer and graduate from Jiaotong University in Xi'an .

As a fighter pilot, Chen belonged to the second group of Chinese Taikonauts in 2009 . Yang Liwei , the first spaceman in China, conducted the selection interview with him. In March 2010, he was officially selected as a taikonaut for the Shenzhou 11 space program.

Together with Commander Jing Haipeng , Chen started his first space mission on October 16, 2016 at 11.30 p.m. GMT (October 17, 7.30 a.m. local time) at the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in China with the Long March 2F launcher in the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft. The two space travelers lived and worked aboard the Tiangong 2 space station for about 30 days and returned to Earth on November 18, 2016.

Private life

Chen comes from a working-class family consisting of his father Chén Shùlín ( 陳樹林  /  陈树林 ), his mother Huáng Yàn ( 黃 焱  /  黄 焱 ) and his four years older brother Chén Bō ( 陳波  /  陈波 ), one in Dongguan working doctor. Chen is married and has two sons who are twins . His wife is from Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province , where he was stationed as a fighter pilot for a while.

Award

For his services to the Shenzhou 11 Mission, on December 26, 2016, Chen was awarded the Third Class Space Medal by China's highest military command, the Central Military Commission .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rui C. Barbosa: Chinese duo launched to begin Shenzhou-11 mission. nasaspaceflight.com, October 16, 2016, accessed October 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Article "Chen Dong - Six years of toughening, one day flying (陈冬 ： 六年 磨砺 一朝 飞天)", Chinese: [1] on xinhuanet.com, accessed on March 29, 2018 - online
  3. ↑ Article "Shaanxi is pride - Shenzhou 11 program - Both space travelers are college graduates from Jiaotong University in Xi'an (陕西 骄傲 ：" 神舟 十一 号 "两 航天 员 均为 西安 交大 学子)", Chinese: [2] on cnwest.com, accessed March 29, 2018 - Online
  4. ↑ Rui C. Barbosa and Chris Bergin: Shenzhou-11 returns Chinese duo to Earth. nasaspaceflight.com, November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Dong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Chen, Dong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 陳冬 (Chinese); 陈冬 (Chinese); Chén, Dōng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Luoyang , Henan Province