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Personal: Male. Born in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: China Group - 1996, China Group 1 - 1998. Active Entered space service: 19 November 1996. One of the two first reported Chinese astronauts. Wu trained in Russia for one year beginning in November 1996. Together with Li Qinglong he formed the basis of the Chinese astronaut cadre scheduled to fly on the Shenzhou indigenous spacecraft. Wu was 163 cm tall and weighed 63 kg. He graduated from the PLAAF Engineering College in 1987 and later the PLAAF Flight College. As a PLAAF pilot, he accumulated 1100 flight-hours. Wu Jie Chronology 1 December 1997 - Chinese Astronauts Complete Training in Russia. Two Chinese astronauts completed their training in Russia and returned to China. They would act as instructors for China's own astronaut training program. At the same time the largest thermal vacum test equipment in Asia finished construction. 12 October 2005 - Shenzhou 6. Moved up from October 13. Second Chinese manned space mission. The two-astronaut crew spent 5 days in space, and worked in the Shenzhou orbital module for the first time. Aside from biomedical experiments, the nature of their work was not divulged, and few images of the interior of the orbital module (with its probable military experiments) were released. 16 October 2005 - Landing of Shenzhou 6.
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