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Cai Xuzhe (Chinese: 蔡旭哲; born May 1976) is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.
Biography
Cai was born in Shenzhou, Hengshui, Hebei province in 1976. His grandparents come from a scholarly family, teaching in the downtown county and village, respectively, and were veteran party members before the founding of the People's Republic of China.His third uncle was a soldier. Cai graduated from the Baoding Branch of the Changchun Flight Academy of the Air Force.He served as a fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, and was subsequently selected to be an astronaut in 2010. His name was revealed as part of Group 2 in 2011.
He was on board the Tiangong space station, as part of the Shenzhou 14 mission. He completed two spacewalks on 17 September and 17 November both with Chen Dong.
Personal life
Cai married Wang Yanqing (王颜晴), who is a nurse in a PLA military hospital.
