Jing Haipeng

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Jing Haipeng, probably China's first two-time astronaut

Jing Haipeng (景海鹏), a colonel pilot in the air force of the Chinese Liberation Army, is to become China’s first two-time astronaut in the country’s manned spaceflight mission.

During his previous Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, he served as a reentry module monitor while his partner Zhai Zhigang launched the country’s first space walk. On June 15, 2012, Jing was again selected as one of the three taikonauts , including Liu Yang, China’s first female astronaut and Liu Wang, for the country’s fourth human space flight—Shenzhou 9, which is scheduled to take off on June 16, 2012.

Born in Shanxi, Oct. 24, 1966, Jing had applied two times for the candidacy of national pilot schools, and was eventually admitted to the Aviation University of Air Force in 1985. In the ensuing years, he served as a pilot and was finally chosen to be an astronaut in 1998. With 1,200 hours of flying logged, he was one of the trainees for Shenzhou 6.