Song Lingdong
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Song Lingdong (Chinese: 宋令东; born August 1990) is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.
Song Lingdong | |||||||
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Born | August 1990 (age 34) | ||||||
Status | Active | ||||||
Nationality | Chinese | ||||||
Space career | |||||||
PLAAC astronaut | |||||||
Previous occupation | PLAAF fighter pilot | ||||||
Rank | , PLAGF | ||||||
Time in space | 55 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes (currently in space) | ||||||
Selection | Chinese Group 3 | ||||||
Missions | Shenzhou 19 | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 宋令东 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 宋令東 | ||||||
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Song was born in Heze, Shandong, in August 1990.[1] In 2007, he enrolled at Air Force Aviation University. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 2008, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 2013.[1]
Song was an air force pilot.
On 29 October 2024, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze were assigned to the Shenzhou 19 crewed spaceflight mission.[2] Then, on 17 December 2024, during this mission's first EVA, he broke the record with Cai Xuzhe for the longest spacewalk in human history, of 9 hours and 6 minutes, with the assistance of the space station's robotic arms and ground-based scientific personnel, completed tasks such as the installation of space debris protection devices, inspection, and maintenance of external equipment and facilities.[3]
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