Fei Junlong

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fei.

Fei Junlong
Fei Junlong at 24th Planetary Congress of Association of Space Explorers, Moscow, BMSTU, September 6, 2011
Born	(1965-05-05) May 5, 1965 (age 59) Suzhou, Jiangsu
Nationality	Chinese
Occupation	Fighter pilot
Space career
CNSA astronaut
Rank	Major general, PLASSF
Time in space	191 days, 2 hours and 58 minutes
Selection	Chinese Group 1
Total EVAs	4
Total EVA time	7 hours, 6 minutes (1st EVA only) ≥27 hours[1]
Missions	Shenzhou 6, Shenzhou 15
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	费俊龙
Traditional Chinese	費俊龍
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fèi Jùnlóng

Major general Fei Junlong (Chinese: 费俊龙; pinyin: Fèi Jùnlóng; born 5 May 1965) is a Chinese military pilot and taikonaut. He was the commander of Shenzhou 6, the second crewed spaceflight of China's space program, and was selected as commander for the Shenzhou 15 mission to the Tiangong space station.

Early life

He was born in a rural village in Kunshan, Jiangsu province of China to a family of farmers and was recruited from high school by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in 1982 at the age of 17. He graduated with excellent marks from the PLAAF's No. 9 Aviation School, the Changchun No.1 Flight College of the PLA Air Force and Flight Training School of the Air Force. In the PLAAF, he was a pilot, flight trainer and flight technology inspector.

Spaceflight career

Fei was selected for the CNSA astronaut program in 1998. He was in the final five selected for China's first crewed space flight, Shenzhou 5. He was the commander on the Shenzhou 6 flight that launched October 12, 2005, with Nie Haisheng serving as flight engineer. They landed on October 17, 2005.

Fei is also a member of Shenzhou 15's 3-person crew on a 6-months mission to Tiangong space station. The mission launched on 29 November 2022, arriving at the station about seven hours later.^[2]

Personal life

He married Wang Jie (王洁) in 1991 and has one son.^[3][4] His father-in-law was a veteran of the Korean War and later became an aerospace researcher, and his mother-in-law was a teacher.^[3][4] His son Fei Di (费迪) is also a member of the Shenzhou spacecraft development team.^[3][4] During his personal time he dabbles in fine arts.

Awards and honors

• Command Pilot of PLAAF, 1982
• Merit Citation Class II, 1996
• Chinese May 4 Medal for Youth Having Outstanding Contributions, 2005
• Aerospace Achievement Medal, 2005
• The honorary title of "Space Hero", 2005
• Top 10 Inspirational Models of China, 2006
• Asteroid 9512 Feijunlong, 2007
• Honorary Professor of Nanjing Audit University, 2011
• Honorary Member of Chinese Society of Astronautics, 2012

The asteroid 9512 Feijunlong was named after him.

See also

• List of Chinese astronauts
• Chinese space programme

References

1. 中国新闻社; 中国新闻社 (2023-06-04). "神舟十五号航天员乘组返回" (in Chinese (China)). 中国新闻社. Archived from the original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
2. "Spaceflight mission report Shenzhou-15". www.spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
3. Zhan Kang (占康) (2002). 费俊龙：十七年后在出征 [Fei Junlong: seventeen years later, he will be on the expedition]. Celebrities' Biographies (in Chinese). 608. Zhengzhou, Henan: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House: 5–9. ISSN 1002-6282.
4. Yi Yi (一一) (2023). 再度飞天费俊龙：家有娇小姐成就勇夫 [Flying again, Fei Junlong: Having a beautiful wife at home makes a brave husband]. Bosom Friend (in Chinese). 450. Wuhan, Hubei: Hubei Zhiyin Media Group Co., Ltd.: 40–42. ISSN 1007-502X.

External links

• Fèi Jùnlóng at the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Accessed 23 July 2005.
• "New spacemen to become household names in manned space". Xinhua News Agency. 2005-10-12.
• Spacefacts biography of Fèi Jùnlóng