1. Nie Haisheng was born on 13 October 1964 and is a major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force in active service as an taikonaut and the third commander of the PLA Astronaut Corps.
11 Facts About Nie Haisheng
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Nie Haisheng was a PLA Air Force fighter pilot and director of navigation.
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Nie Haisheng was born on 8 September 1964 in a rural village in Yangdang Town of Zaoyang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province to a family of farmers.
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Nie Haisheng trained at the PLAAF Seventh Flight Academy and graduated in 1987.
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Nie Haisheng went into orbit, along with Fei Junlong, as flight engineer of the Shenzhou 6 flight on 12 October 2005.
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Nie Haisheng was selected to be the commander of the backup crew for the Shenzhou 9 mission.
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In 2013, Nie Haisheng was selected to command the Shenzhou 10 second crewed space mission to the Chinese prototype space station Tiangong 1.
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Nie Haisheng became the first officer to hold general rank at the time of their launch in the Chinese space program with the Shenzhou 10 mission.
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Nie Haisheng was chosen in December 2019 for his third spaceflight, Shenzhou 12, which lifted off on 17 June 2021 on the first crewed mission to the Tiangong space station.
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Nie Haisheng conducted his first spacewalk outside the station on 20 August 2021.
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Nie Haisheng is married to Nie Jielin and they have a daughter named Nie Tianxiang.