Tang Hongbo | |||||||
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 Tang in 2023 | |||||||
| Born | October 1975 (age 50) | ||||||
| Status | Active | ||||||
| Alma mater |  PLA Air Force Changchun Flight College | ||||||
| Space career | |||||||
| PLAAC astronaut | |||||||
Previous occupation | Fighter pilot,PLAAF | ||||||
| Rank | Senior colonel,PLASSF | ||||||
Time in space | 279 days, 10 hours and 43 minutes | ||||||
| Selection | List of astronauts by year of selection | ||||||
TotalEVAs | 3 | ||||||
Total EVA time | 22 hours, 3 minutes[1] | ||||||
| Missions | Shenzhou 12,Shenzhou 17 | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 汤洪波 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 湯洪波 | ||||||
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Senior ColonelTang Hongbo (Chinese:汤洪波;pinyin:Tāng Hóngbō; born October 1975) is a Chinesefighter pilot andPeople's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC)taikonaut. He flew on his first spaceflight to theTiangong space station as a part of theShenzhou 12 mission, the first to visit the station. He was the commander of theShenzhou 17 mission, making him the first taikonaut to visit Tiangong twice.
As of May 2024, Tang had spent 279 days in space and held the Chinese record for longest spaceflight duration until surpassed byYe Guangfu later the same year.[2]
He was born into a family of farming background in the town ofYunhuqiao,Xiangtan County,Hunan in October 1975.[3][4] He has a younger brother.[3]
Awarded the rank Senior Colonel, he joined the PLA Air Force in September 1995. Where he was promoted to the post of group commander at a fighter jet regiment. He was selected for the second group of astronauts at Nie's division in May 2010 then was chosen in May 2016 as an alternate for the two-member crew of theShenzhou 11 mission.[5]
Apilot in thePeople's Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected into thePeople's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps in 2010.[6] He was part of the backup crew forShenzhou 11, and flew as one of three crew members onShenzhou 12, the first crewed mission to theTiangong space station.[7]
On 4 July 2021, Tang andLiu Boming, another crew member of Shenzhou 12, completed the first extravehicular activity of Tiangong space station.[8]
Later he flew again to Tiangong on the second mission and first as the Commander onShenzhou 17 withJiang Xinlin andTang Shengjie on 26 October 2023.[9] On 21 December 2023 and 2 March 2024, he carried out his second and third spacewalks, which lasted for 7 hours and 25 minutes and 7 hours and 52 minutes, respectively.[10]
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