Ye Guangfu
叶光富
Ye in 2021
BornSeptember 1980 (age 43)
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
StatusActive
Space career
PLAAC Taikonaut
Previous occupation
Fighter pilot, PLAAF
RankSenior Colonel, PLASSF
Time in space
182 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes
SelectionChinese Group 2
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
6 hours, 11 minutes[1]
MissionsShenzhou 13
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese叶光富
Traditional Chinese葉光富

Ye Guangfu (Chinese: 叶光富; pinyin: Yè Guāngfù; born September 1980)[2] 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 Shuangliu County, Sichuan in September 1980.[3][4] He has an elder sister.[3] His father passed away when Ye was only 8, and he helped with farm work since childhood.[3] Ye elementary studied at Wan'an Middle School (万安中学) and secondary studied at Taiping High School (太平中学).[3]

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.[5][6]

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.[7]

He was part of the backup crew for Shenzhou 12,[8] and has been selected to fly on Shenzhou 13 to the Tiangong space station.[9]

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.[10]

Personal life

Ye is married and has a son and a daughter.[3][11] His father-in-law is a pilot.[3]

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ye Guangfu - EVA". spacefacts. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Taikonaut Biography: Ye Guangfu". 20 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zhan Kang (占康) (2002). 航天员叶光富：首战即大考 [Astronaut Ye Guangfu: the First Battle is the Great Exam]. Celebrities' Biographies (in Chinese). Zhengzhou, Henan: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House. 595: 84–89. ISSN 1002-6282.
  4. ↑ 中国航天员叶光富首次亮相 6天6夜探秘撒丁岛洞穴. 中国新闻网. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Cosmonaut Selection: China". spacefacts.de. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Ye Guangfu". European Space Agency. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Profile: Ye Guangfu, a new face in China's space mission". Xinhuanet. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "China unveils Shenzhou-12 astronauts for space station construction". 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "China unveils Shenzhou-13 crew for six-month space station mission".
  10. ↑ "Shenzhou-13 crew conducts second spacewalk of mission". Nasaspaceflight.com. 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "2022年叶光富儿子是学霸吗 其老婆及家人资料照片公布". nitnews.nyist.net. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
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