Manned Flight No. | 238 |
Manned flight of the China No. | 1 |
Manned flight Shenzhou No. | 1 |
Launch: | Oct 15, 2003 01:00:00 |
Landing: | Oct 15, 2003 22:23:00 |
Duration: | 21 h 23 m |
Orbits: | 14 |
Cosmonaut No. 431
Cosmonaut China No. 1
Yang Liwei: 1st flight (last)
Cumulative time: 21 h 23 m
Launch of Shenzhou-05.
Yang Liwei inside Shenzhou spacecraft.
Yang Liwei after landing.
The first manned flight of the ship Shenzhou. Chinese cosmonaut the first time in space. Yang Liwei is the first Chinese cosmonaut. China is the third country to carry out a manned space flight. The Chinese space ship is called Shenzhou, which in translation means Magic Boat.
The longest flight:
Jan 08, 1994 437 d 17 h 58 m 31 s (10505 h 58 m 31 s)
Valery Polyakov
The largest number of flights: 7
Jerry Ross,
Franklin Chang-Diaz
The most cumulative time in space (3 flights):
747 d 14 h 15 m 1 s (17942 h 15 m 1 s) Sergey Avdeyev