Zhai Zhigang is a Chinese People Liberation Army Air Force pilot and astronaut who performed the first spacewalk by a Chinese citizen during the Shenzhou 7 mission in September 2008. He later commanded the Shenzhou 13 mission in 2021 to 2022, a six-month stay aboard the newly assembled Tiangong space station, one of the longest crewed missions in Chinese spaceflight history at the time.
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