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Badges
Space Resident
This astronaut has spent over a month in space.
Crossed Kármán Line
This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.
Station Visitor
This astronaut visited the Tiangong Space Station.
Bio
The pilot-turned astronaut Tang Shengjie will have his first spaceflight for the Shenzhou-17 mission. The 34-year-old astronaut Tang, born in December 1989, was a former fighter pilot who graduated from China's Aviation University of Air Force in 2012. Tang joined China's third batch of astronauts in September 2020. Caption courtesy of CGTN.
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Tang Shengjie is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 2008.