Jiang Xinlin (; born February 1988) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the

Shenzhou program Shenzhou may refer to: * Shenzhou, or "Divine Land", one of the Chinese names of China * Shenzhou program, a crewed spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China * Shenzhou (spacecraft), spacecraft from China which first carried a Chi ...

. He enlisted in the

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(PLA) in September 2006.

Biography

Jiang was born in

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Kaifeng Kaifeng ( zh, s=开封, p=Kāifēng) is a prefecture-level city in east-Zhongyuan, central Henan province, China. It is one of the Historical capitals of China, Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and ...

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, in February 1988. He held

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s from a very young age to help his family's needs. In 2006, Jiang was admitted to the former PLA Army Armored Forces Academy College. In September 2006, he enlisted in the

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and became a

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. Later in 2010, after Jiang Jiang graduated from the PLA Army Armored Forces Academy College, participated in the Air Force pilot selection and was selected. He is a fourth-level

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in the Astronaut Corps of the

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and is a first class PLA Air Force pilot for 10 years. During this time, Jiang flew more than 1,000 hours safely, was rated as a first-class pilot of the Air Force, and served as the deputy captain of a flying brigade of the Air Force Aviation Brigade, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the PLAAF. In 2018, he participated in the selection of the third batch of taikonauts. In September 2020, as an aerospace

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, he was selected in third taikonaut group. Jiang underwent difficult training in field survival and zero-g preparation using the zero-gravity rotating chair. Two years later in June 2022, he was selected as the crew for the crewed mission of

Shenzhou 17 Shenzhou 17 () was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 26 October 2023. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the twelfth crew ...

as a system operator. He flew to

Tiangong Space Station Tiangong (), officially the ''Tiangong'' space station (), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. Tiangong is a modular design, with modules docked together while in low Earth o ...

on Shenzhou-17 on 26 October 2023 and docked later on the same day.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jiang, Xinlin 1988 births Living people People from Kaifeng Shenzhou program People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps Spacewalkers