Fei Junlong
Fei Junlong is a Chinese military pilot, major general, and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps taikonaut who commanded two important phases of China's crewed space program. He led Shenzhou 6, China's second crewed mission, and later commanded Shenzhou 15 during the first operational phase of the completed Tiangong .
- Born
- May 5, 1965
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Suzhou, Jiangsu,China
Flights
2
Spacewalks
4
EVA time
29 hours, 56 minutes
In space
191 days, 2 hours, 58 minutes
Bio
Fei was recruited into the People's Liberation Army Air Force as a teenager and trained through Chinese military aviation schools before becoming a pilot, flight trainer, and flight technology inspector. He joined China's first astronaut group in 1998.
His first flight, Shenzhou 6, launched in October 2005 with Nie Haisheng. The five-day mission expanded China's crewed program beyond the one-person Shenzhou 5 flight and tested longer-duration two-person spacecraft operations.
Fei returned to space on Shenzhou 15 in November 2022 with Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu. The crew lived aboard Tiangong after the station's initial completion, performed multiple , and helped move China into routine space-station operations.