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Astronaut fighter pilot. He enrolled at the People"s Liberation Army Air Force Aviation Institute and studied to be a fighter pilot and then as a squadron leader. During the Shenzhou 7 mission in , he became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk.

Zhai Zhigang (Chinese: 翟志刚; pinyin: Zhái Zhìgāng; born 11 October ) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut.

In , Zhai was selected to trial for the astronaut program and was selected to be the first group of fourteen in Zhai was one of the six astronauts in the final training for Shenzhou 6. The Ta Kung Pao newspaper had reported that Zhai Zhigang and Nie Haisheng were the leading pair, after having been in the final group of three for Shenzhou 5.

However, Zhai had been paired with Wu Jie during training. Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng flew the flight. Zhai Zhigang has been listed as a noteworthy astronaut by Marquis Who's Who. He was one of three members of the final group to train for the Shenzhou 5 flight. Calligraphy, ballroom dancing, video games. Back to Profile. Photos Works.

On September 27, , Zhai Zhigang (翟志剛), the Chinese astronaut of Shenzhou-7 (神舟七號), successfully completed China's first space extravehicular mission.

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