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Jiao Lizhong, a native of Jiaolou Village, Liulou Town, Dongming County, Heze City, Shandong Province, 1960, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is a senior astronaut of NASA. His father, Dr. Jiao Zutao, is a researcher of the United States Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and a consultant of the European Space Center, while his mother, Zhu Qingyun, was born in Qingdao and holds a doctorate in chemical engineering. In the mid-1980s, Jiao Lizhong studied chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He applied to N ASA for the first time to become an astronaut, but was rejected because he didn't finish his studies and had no work experience. From 65438 to 0987, after receiving his doctorate, Jiao Lizhong worked in Hershey Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successively, and participated in the development of space composites. 1990 65438+ 10, Jiao Lizhong finally stood out from more than 2,500 candidates and entered the training camp of NASA. In July of the following year, he passed the strict selection and examination and became a fully qualified astronaut as he wished. 1994, he took off on the space shuttle Columbia for the first time, becoming the196th astronaut of NASA to get the opportunity of "business travel in space". Because of its excellent performance, it took only two years to get the opportunity to take off again. This time, he flew in the space shuttle Endeavour, became the first China man to perform an extravehicular mission, and went out twice to test and assemble the technical equipment of the International Space Station. In 2000, when he launched the space shuttle Discovery for the third time, he walked in space twice again. June 65438+10/October 65438+March 2004, Jiao Lizhong took off from Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and entered the International Space Station, which he participated in, as the stationmaster, becoming the first stationmaster in China in history. During his 15 career as an astronaut, he took off four times in the space shuttles Columbia, Endeavour, Discovery and Russian Soyuz, and made six spacewalks. The total time spent in space reached 229 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes and 5 seconds, and the spacewalk left the cabin for a total of 36 hours, setting a number of firsts. So far, he is the only Chinese astronaut serving as the stationmaster of the International Space Station and the first astronaut to vote for the US presidential election from space.