China Manned Space Program (CMS)

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

This astronaut visited the Tiangong Space Station.

Station Visitor

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

Chen Dong was born on 12 December 1978 in Luoyang, Henan Province, China. He trained as a fighter pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force and graduated from the PLAAF Changchun Flight Academy, later earning a master’s degree in engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Selected as part of China’s second batch of taikonauts in May 2010, he made his first spaceflight aboard Shenzhou 11 in October 2016, spending 33 days aboard the Tiangong‑2 space lab. His second mission came in June 2022 on Shenzhou 14, serving as commander for about six months aboard the Tiangong space station, during which he led three spacewalks and oversaw the docking of Wentian and Mengtian modules, setting a new national record of 214 cumulative days in space . In April 2025, Chen began his third mission aboard Shenzhou 20, launching on 24 April as mission commander for another six‑month stay aboard Tiangong.

Shenzhou-20

Shenzhou is a Soyuz-derived spacecraft built and flown by China. Larger than its Russian counterpart, Shenzhou is made up of three parts. Like Soyuz, only the reentry module with the crew survives reentry and landing.

Shenzhou

Shenzhou 14

China launched its 3rd crewed mission to its Tiangong space station. The crew will spend six months overseeing a large expansion of Tiangong with the addition of two new science and habitation modules named Wentian and Mengtian. 

Shenzhou 11

Shenzhou 11 is longest and most-recent Chinese human spaceflight.  Lasting 33 days, its crew visited the Tiangong 2 space station and tested life support equipment and explored how to work for prolonged periods in space.

Chen Dong

China

Shenzhou 14 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 20 - EVA 3

Unknown

Shenzhou 14 - EVA 2

Shenzhou 20 - EVA 1

This astronaut has visited the Tiangong Space Station.

TSS Visitor

Shenzhou 16

Shenzhou 7

The first three-person human spaceflight by China saw the crew perform the first Chinese spacewalk. Over three days in space, the crew conducted experiments, deployed a small satellite, and communicated to the ground through China's new data relay satellite, Tianlian I.

Shenzhou 9

Shenzhou 9 was a three-person Chinese spaceflight that became the first Chinese mission to rendezvous and dock to the Tiangong 1 Chinese space station. It marked the first time a Chinese woman flew a space mission. The 13-day flight including 6 days docked to Tiangong 1 and seven days of free flight.

Jing Haipeng

This astronaut is the first woman from China to go to space.

First Woman from China

Liu Yang

This astronaut broke the record for the longest EVA in history, lasting 9 hours and 6 minutes.

Longest Spacewalk

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)

Shenzhou-19

China launched a crew of three to spend six months at the Tiangong Space Station.

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