Gui Haichao | |||||||
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桂海潮 | |||||||
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| Born | November 1986 (age 37–38) | ||||||
| Status | Active | ||||||
| Nationality |  Chinese | ||||||
| Alma mater | Beihang University (B.E., & PhD) | ||||||
| Occupation | Associate Professor | ||||||
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| CMSA payload specialist astronaut | |||||||
Previous occupation | Postdoctoral researcher | ||||||
Time in space | 153 days, 22 hours and 41 minutes | ||||||
| Selection | Chinese Group 3 | ||||||
| Missions | Shenzhou 16 | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 桂海潮 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 桂海潮 | ||||||
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Gui Haichao (Chinese: 桂海潮; born November 1986) is a Chinese aerospace engineer, researcher and professor selected as part of the Shenzhou program.[2]
Unlike all earlier taikonauts, Gui is China's first civilian astronaut who is not enlisted in the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps and is the first payload specialist on mission in China Manned Space Program.[1]
- ^ a b "China to send its first civilian astronaut into space". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
- ^ "Haichao Gui". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.