32-year-old Wu Fei is the youngest Chinese astronaut who joined the Shenzhou-21 mission as a space engineer. The Shenzhou-21 crew – Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang – blasted off at 11:44 pm Friday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The crew also included four lab mice.

The Shenzhou-21 astronauts will take over from the Shenzhou-20 crew who had lived and worked on board Tiangong, or “Heavenly Palace," for more than six months.

The veteran astronauts are replaced by the younger faces. As per a report by Reuters, first-timers Zhang Hongzhang, 39, and Wu Fei, 32 – China’s youngest astronaut to be sent to space – were picked to participate in the programme in 2020.

Youngest Chinese Astronaut In Shenzhou-21 Mission

Wu Fei was born in 1993 in Bao

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