Jing Haipeng

<p>Jing Haipeng (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 景海鹏; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 景海鵬; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>Jǐng Hǎipéng</i>; born 24 October 1966) is a <a href="/facts/Major_general/4v4nzpy7">major general</a> of the <a href="/facts/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Ground_Force/8Euv6gBn">People's Liberation Army Ground Force</a> (PLAGF) in active service as a vice-commander of the <a href="/facts/82nd_Group_Army/Ct5CbmRA">82nd Group Army</a>. A <a href="/facts/Fighter_pilot/QvqJ7y6K">fighter pilot</a> in the <a href="/facts/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Air_Force/QW1epsTb">PLA Air Force</a> (PLAAF), he was selected to be a <a href="/facts/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Astronaut_Corps/rMGrJXY6">PLA Astronaut Corps</a> (PLAAC) <a href="/facts/Astronaut/HB1bd6Lz">astronaut</a> in 1998. He was the first <a href="/facts/List_of_Chinese_astronauts/Y4bMPJbl">Chinese astronaut</a> to have flown on more than one mission and remains the only one to have flown on four (<a href="/facts/Shenzhou_7/VQQNl9zN">Shenzhou 7</a>, <a href="/facts/Shenzhou_9/UbfyDzbv">Shenzhou 9</a>, <a href="/facts/Shenzhou_11/jokyVGUy">Shenzhou 11</a>, <a href="/facts/Shenzhou_16/J4emtV9E">Shenzhou 16</a>).  He also held the Chinese record for longest time spent in space from 2016 to 2021 (47 days) and again from 2023 (201 days), until his record was overtaken by <a href="/facts/Tang_Hongbo/ylcg0JTX">Tang Hongbo</a> in February 2024.
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Jing Haipeng