Tang Hongbo

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Tang Hongbo
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 May 7, 2010
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: June 17, 2021
Space flights

Tang Hongbo ( Chinese 湯洪波 / 汤洪波, Pinyin Tāng Hóngbō ; born October 1975 in Xiangtan , Hunan Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese fighter pilot and spaceman. On June 17, 2021, he took off on his first space flight with Shenzhou 12 to the Chinese space station .

Youth and service in the Air Force

Tang Hongbo was born in October 1975 in the village of Feilun (飞轮 村, today Feilan or 飞 栏 村) in the west of the large community of Yunhuqiao (云 湖 桥镇) of Xiangtan County in the central Chinese province of Hunan as the elder of two sons of the farmers Tang Haiqiu (汤海秋, * 1948) and Wu Lanqing (伍兰清, * 1951) were born. Tang Hongbo was considered a quiet child, he had to help out in agriculture from an early age in addition to school. At the age of 10 he was already an experienced travel implementer . At high school he was good at sports, especially basketball, but otherwise his performance was more in the middle range. Nevertheless, he passed the entrance exam for the military academy. In September 1995 he joined the People's Liberation Army . After the basic training, given the choice of whether to fly helicopters or fighter planes, he decided on fighter planes. In April 1997, Tang Hongbo joined the Chinese Communist Party . In the Air Force of the People's Republic of China - he was stationed in Xinjiang - he completed 1159 accident-free flight hours, for which he was awarded the level I military aircraft pilot. His last post in the Air Force was command of a flying group.

Service in the space corps

On May 7, 2010, after a multi-stage selection process, Tang Hongbo was accepted into the People's Liberation Army space corps as the oldest of this selection group. He completed the full four-year training and in May 2016, together with his colleague Deng Qingming, who was nine years older than him, was selected by the 1998 selection group as one of the two possible teams for the Shenzhou 11 Mission . Tang Hongbo and Deng Qingming also traveled to the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in October 2016 . On this mission, however, the crew selection was made early on, and the two men would only have had a chance if one of the members of the primary crew had fallen ill. This did not happen, and so on October 16, 2016, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong left for a month's stay in the Tiangong 2 space laboratory .

The tasks on the Shenzhou 12 mission, during which the technical systems of the Chinese space station were to be checked and spacecraft operations to be carried out, were even more demanding than those of Shenzhou 11. Here, too, the team was assigned a year and a half before the planned start - in December 2019 - so that it took place the spacemen were able to prepare thoroughly for the mission. Tang Hongbo was split up with his space-savvy colleagues Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming . As usual with the People's Liberation Army space corps, two permanent teams always trained in parallel and according to the same program until the end. It was only a day before the start that it was decided which of the two teams should fly to the space station on June 17, 2021.

Tang Hongbo has been married since his Air Force time in Xinjiang with his childhood friend Xia Yi (夏宜), now in Chinese astronauts training center works and participated among others in the development of new, more comfortable work suits that the astronauts on the mission Shenzhou 12 on the Carry space station. The two have a son who was still attending high school in 2021.

See also

Individual evidence

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