Never Haisheng

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Never Haisheng
Never Haisheng
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 January 5, 1998
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		October 12, 2005
Landing of the
last space flight: 		currently in space
Time in space: 19d 09h 03min
(without current space flight)
Space flights

Nie Haisheng ( Chinese 聶海勝 / 聂海胜, Pinyin Niè Hǎishèng ; born October 13, 1964 in Yangdang , Hubei Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese fighter pilot and spaceman. Since February 2016 he has been in command of the People's Liberation Army space corps .

Youth and service in the Air Force

Nie Haisheng was on 13 October 1964, the village Fanzhuang (樊庄村) the greater community Yangdang the then circle Zaoyang in the north of the province of Hubei born. He grew up with five older sisters and two younger brothers in the Liaoyuan People's Commune (燎原 人民公社); Due to the high number of children and the barren soil of the area cultivated by the municipality, the family was very poor. From 1973 to 1978, from the age of eight, he attended Fanzhuang Elementary School. After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, school fees were introduced as part of the Boluan-Fanzheng policy ; on the other hand, the people's communes at that time still worked according to the working point principle. As a primary school student, Nie Haisheng helped make hay at the weekend and during the holidays, as well as harvesting wheat and cotton in order to earn school fees. Nonetheless, he was a good student and often top of the class, especially in math.

In 1980, while he was in the middle of high school, his father died. As the oldest man, the 16-year-old was now responsible for looking after the family. You never had to leave school to take care of the family. With the support of his teachers, he went back to school. In 1981 he moved to the first district high school of Zaoyang for the upper school . In March 1983, when he was about to graduate from high school, Air Force officers showed up at the school to recruit pilots. Including Nie Haisheng, seven students from the 1st district high school passed the three exams - physical fitness, general education, political reliability - for a career as a pilot. Since Nie also got the necessary number of points in his high school graduation, he was admitted to the 1st Basic Training School of the Air Force in Changchun in June 1983 .

In December 1986, Nie Haisheng joined the Chinese Communist Party , and in May 1987 he graduated from the now renamed Changchun First Pilot School. He was then assigned to the force, where he flew the Chengdu J-7 interceptor, among other things .

On June 12, 1989, he began test flights of a modified single-engine fighter aircraft. The following day, June 13th, an accident occurred on one of these test flights. A mechanical problem arose with the impeller blades of the turbo compressor of his engine , there was a small explosion and the engine failed at a height of 4000 m. The aircraft began to rotate around its longitudinal axis and crash at a steep angle. The cabin temperature rose sharply. Nie Haisheng reported to the air traffic control center and tried to get the aircraft back under control, but without success. The flight control center then gave him permission to get out with the ejector seat . To the end, Haisheng never tried to glide and bring the plane back to base. However, the distance was too far for that. He finally triggered the ejection seat about 450 m above the ground. He passed out. When he came to, he had landed in a rice field. The plane fell a good 100 m away in a small valley and caught fire; soon after it exploded. 27 days later he had recovered from the effects of the ejection seat exit and was able to fly again. For his behavior during the accident, on the recommendation of the political commissioner of his unit, he was awarded the 3rd degree of merit of the People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军 三等功 奖章).

In the further course Nie Haisheng rose to the staff of his squadron, where he was responsible for drawing up the flight plans. During his active time in the Air Force, he completed 1,480 accident-free flight hours, for which he was awarded the level I military aircraft pilot's badge.

Service in the space corps

In 1996, China began looking for space travelers among its country's fighter pilots for the manned space program launched in 1992 . The selection process took place in strict secrecy. Nie Haisheng was one of 60 pilots shortlisted from the 1506 original candidates. In the end there were 14 candidates left who were sworn in on January 5, 1998 as spacemen of the newly created space corps of the People's Liberation Army , one of them Nie Haisheng.

Following the Shenzhou 5 2003 mission , where Nie, together with Yang Liwei and Zhai Zhigang, was among the final candidates for the flight, ten candidates were initially selected from the space corps and divided into five teams of two, who always worked together for the next mission trained. The order was determined according to their performance; the best in training had the best chance of flying with Shenzhou 6 . From the five groups, three groups were selected in June 2005 that were specially prepared for the mission:

On October 12, 2005, Nie Haisheng finally took off into space with Fei Junlong. Shenzhou 6 was China's second manned space flight. During the four-and-a-half-day mission, the spacemen first transferred to the more spacious orbital module of the spaceship, where they could also use a toilet. In addition, 6 slightly revised cabin suits were tested at Shenzhou. Compared to the model that Yang Liwei wore in 2003, the changes to these three-layer suits (the Feitian outboard suit has six layers) were not particularly large. For Shenzhou 12 2021 and the following missions, however, significantly more comfortable suits were developed.

In July 2011, Nie Haisheng was promoted to major general. During the flight from Shenzhou 10 in June 2013, he was the first Chinese general in space as commander of the three-man crew. Together with Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping , Nie Haisheng spent almost 12 days in the Tiangong 1 space laboratory during the two-week mission . During this time a manual docking maneuver was practiced. On June 23, 2013, all three space travelers transferred to the Shenzhou spaceship and manually disconnected from the space laboratory at 00:26 UTC. The Beijing Space Control Center used the telemetry data to check the condition of the spaceship and the space laboratory. Then Nie Haisheng manually steered the spaceship towards the space laboratory while Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping kept an eye on the instruments. At 02:00 the spaceship touched the space laboratory, seven minutes later the coupling mechanism had firmly connected the two spacecraft again.

In February 2016, Nie Haisheng, the eldest of the astronauts at the time, succeeded Fei Junlong as commander of the People's Liberation Army Space Corps. However, Major General Fei remained an active member of the Space Corps.

Nie Haisheng is married to the military doctor Nie Jielin (聂 捷 琳), their daughter was born in 1993. Unlike the other women pilots, Nie Jielin had originally been very opposed to her husband accepting the request for presentation to participate in the spaceman selection process. It was not until 2005, when Nie Haisheng trained intensively for Shenzhou 6, that she came to terms with her husband's career choice.

On December 15, 2005, an asteroid was named after him: (9517) Niehaisheng .

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Individual evidence

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Note: In this article, the family name is placed before the first name of the person. This is the usual order in Chinese. The family name is never here, Haisheng is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Never, Haisheng
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niè, Hǎishèng; 聶海勝; 聂海胜
SHORT DESCRIPTION Chinese astronaut, commander of the People's Liberation Army space corps
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Yangdang , Hubei Province , People's Republic of China