- Wu Jie
Wu Jie (Chinese: 吴杰;
Pinyin : Wú Jié; born October 1963) is a Chinese military pilot andastronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.Biography
He was born in
Zhengzhou ,Henan province,China . In 1987 he graduated from thePeople's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Engineering College and later the PLAAF Flight College. A fighter pilot in the PLAAF, he had accumulated 1100 flight-hours.In November 1996, he and
Li Qinglong , started training at theRussia nYuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center . When they returned to China a year later, they acted as the trainers for the first group of Shenzhou astronauts. Before the flight of "Shenzhou 5 " it was thought that he or Li Qinglong would fly the mission, that was eventually flown byYáng Lìwěi .Wu was then one of the six astronauts in the final training for "
Shenzhou 6 ".External links
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/wujie.htm Wu Jie] at the
Encyclopedia Astronautica . Accessed23 July 2005 .
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/wu_jie.htm Spacefacts biography of Wu Jie]
*cite news|url=http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/031006054344.c8enl4v0.html|title=China could launch second manned space flight within six months|publisher=SpaceDaily|date=October 6 ,2003
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