Wu Jie

Wu Jie was born in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. In 1987 he graduated from the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Engineering College and later the PLAAF Flight College. A fighter pilot in the PLAAF, he had accumulated 1100 flight-hours.^[1]

In November 1996, Li Qinglong and Wu Jie started training at the Russian Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.^[1] Along with the 12 candidates selected in 1998, they formed Group 1 of the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps.^[3]

Before the flight of Shenzhou 5 it was thought that he or Li Qinglong would fly the mission, that was eventually flown by Yang Liwei.

Wu was then one of the six astronauts in the final training for Shenzhou 6.

Wu Jie retired from the Astronaut Corps in 2014.^[2]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wu Jie.

• Wu Jie at the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Accessed 23 July 2005.
• Spacefacts biography of Wu Jie
• "China could launch second manned space flight within six months". SpaceDaily. October 6, 2003.

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