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“The astronaut” had for a long time seemed “sacred and distant” to Gui Haichao until the researcher became a member of the Astronaut Center of China. The 36-year-old from Yunnan province is the first Chinese civilian (平民) to fly in space.
In 2005, Gui became a student at the School of Astronautics under Beihang University, majoring in spacecraft design and engineering. In the following years, Gui continued his study at Beihang and graduated in the summer of 2014 with a doctor’s degree in spacecraft design. The young researcher then spent two years in a post-doctoral program at the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto. He returned to Beihang in September 2017 after receiving the university’s invitation to teach at the School of Astronautics.
In the spring of 2018, Gui and his colleagues were told by the school’s president that China’s manned space authorities had decided to select the third batch (一批) of astronauts. Gui has been a fan of space exploration for many years and sometimes dreamed about doing his research in space, so he immediately came to fill in the application form. After rounds of physical checks and professional tests, Gui succeeded and started training at the Astronaut Center of China.
According to Wang Yue, a classmate and co-worker of Gui at the School of Astronautics, Gui told him privately that the physical training at the astronaut center was “intense and demanding” and posed a huge challenge to him. “But he didn’t quit the training and managed to pass all tests,” Wang said.
Thanks to his hard work, Gui progressed rapidly in every training course and was chosen for the Shenzhou XVI mission to become the first civilian and scientist in this country to travel in orbit. The professor said he feels fortunate and honored to become the first Chinese science payloads specialist (载荷专家) to fly in space.
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