Wu Jie

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Wu Jie (born October 1963) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

He was born in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.

In 1987 he graduated from the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Engineering College and later the PLAAF Flight College. A fighter pilot in the PLAAF, he had accumulated 1100 flight-hours.

[edit] Career as a taikonaut

In November 1996, he and Li Qinglong, started training at the Russian Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center. When they returned to China a year later, they acted as the trainers for the first group of astronauts. Before the flight of Shenzhou 5 it was thought that he or Li Qinglong would fly the mission, that was eventually flown by Yáng Lìwěi.

Wu was afterwards one of the six astronauts in the final training for Shenzhou 6.

[edit] External links

• Wu Jie at the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Accessed 23 July 2005.
• Spacefacts biography of Wu Jie
• "China could launch second manned space flight within six months", SpaceDaily, October 6, 2003.