Deng Qingming | |||||||||||
Native Name: | 邓清明 | ||||||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||
Birth Date: | 16 March 1966 | ||||||||||
Birth Place: | Yihuang County, Jiangxi, China | ||||||||||
Type: | PLAAC astronaut | ||||||||||
Status: | Active | ||||||||||
Previous Occupation: | PLAAF fighter pilot | ||||||||||
Space Time: | 186 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes | ||||||||||
Selection: | Chinese Group 1[1] | ||||||||||
Missions: | Shenzhou 15 | ||||||||||
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Deng Qingming (; born 16 March 1966) is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.
He was born into a family of farming background in the Yihuang County, Jiangxi, on 16 March 1966.[2] He is the eldest of five children in the family.[2]
A fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998.
He was announced as a backup member of Shenzhou 9, Shenzhou 10, Shenzhou 11 and Shenzhou 12 before finally being selected as one of the three crew members of Shenzhou 15. After 24 years of training,[3] in November 2022 he successfully blasted off on the mission to the Tiangong space station, where he stayed for 183 days before returning to Earth in June 2023.[4]
His daughter was born in 1991 and now works in the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center.[2]