Gui Haichao

Gui Haichao
桂海潮
BornNovember 1986 (age 37–38)
Yaoguan Town, Shidian County, Baoshan, Yunnan, China[1]
StatusActive
NationalityChina Chinese
Alma materBeihang University (B.E., & PhD)
OccupationAssociate Professor
Space career
CMSA payload specialist astronaut
Previous occupation
Postdoctoral researcher
Time in space
153 days, 22 hours and 41 minutes
SelectionChinese Group 3
MissionsShenzhou 16
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese桂海潮
Traditional Chinese桂海潮
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuì Hǎicháo

Gui Haichao (Chinese: 桂海潮; born November 1986) is a Chinese aerospace engineer, researcher and professor selected as part of the Shenzhou program.[2]

Unlike all earlier taikonauts, Gui is China's first civilian astronaut who is not enlisted in the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps and is the first payload specialist on mission in China Manned Space Program.[1]

  1. ^ a b "China to send its first civilian astronaut into space". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Haichao Gui". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.

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