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Ye Guangfu
Chinese astronaut

Ye Guangfu

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Place of birth
Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
Age
44 years
Awards
Spaceflight Exploit Medal
(2022)
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Biography

Ye Guangfu (Chinese: 叶光富; pinyin: Yè Guāngfù; born September 1980) is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

Biography

Ye was born in a rural village Shuangliu County, Sichuan to an ordinary family of farmers in September 1980. He has an elder sister. His father died when Ye was 8, and he helped with farm work from childhood. Ye's elementary education was at Wan'an Middle School (万安中学) and secondary education at Taiping High School (太平中学).

Career

As a People's Liberation Army Air Force pilot, Ye spent four years as an instructor and four years as a jet fighter pilot and amassed a total of 1,100 hours of flight time. He was selected to join the second batch of Chinese astronauts in 2010 and qualified in 2014.

Ye made his first public appearance after participating in the ESA CAVES mission of 2016 organised by the ESA, making him the first Chinese participant of such an event.

He was part of the backup crew for Shenzhou 12, and flew on Shenzhou 13 to the Tiangong space station. On 26 November 2021, Ye and Shenzhou 13 commander Zhai Zhigang carried out the second EVA of the mission, marking Ye's first spacewalk and Zhai's third.

Ye was selected as commander of the Shenzhou 18 mission in 2024.

Personal life

Ye is married and has a son and a daughter. His father-in-law is a pilot.

Apart from his native language Chinese, he is also fluent in English and Russian.

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