Yang Liwei was born in an ordinary family in Liaoning Province in 1965 He became a pilot in Chinese Air Force in 1987， spending 1，350 hours in the air He has spent 5 years training to bee a spaceman
Yang Liwei was sent into space at 9 am on October 15th by ’s Shenzhou V spacecraft， which orbited the earth 14 times He landed safely at 6:23 am the next day， making the third country successfully sending a person into space after the former Soviet Union and the USA
Yang Liwei came back to the earth after a 21-hour trip to space In space Yang recorded everything he saw and showed ’s national flag and the United Nations’ flag to the people watching on TV at home
All of the Chinese are proud of our first spaceman---Yang Liwei