Yang Liwei
Yang Liwei () (born 21 June 1965) is a major general, military pilot, and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) astronaut. In October 2003, he became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program. This mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send humans into space. He is currently a vice chief designer of China Manned Space Engineering.