Zhang Xiaoguang
- Status: Active
- In Space: No
- Date of Birth: 05/01/1966
- First Flight: 06/11/2013
- Last Flight: 06/11/2013
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Zhang Xiaoguang, a Chinese astronaut affiliated with the government agency China National Space Administration, embarked on 1 space flights and engaging in 0 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.
Zhang Xiaoguang is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program.
He was born in May 1966 in Jinzhou, to a family of Manchu ethnicity and was a squadron commander in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force when he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998. He had accumulated 1000 flight-hours as of 2004. He was selected as part of the backup crew for the Shenzhou 9 mission. In 2013, he was selected to fly Shenzhou 10, the third spaceflight to the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1.
