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Wang Yongzhi

Chinese aerospace engineer

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born: 1932
died: 2024
age at death: 91
known for: military flight engineer, engineer

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Wang Yongzhi was a Chinese aerospace scientist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a commissioner of the 11th National People's Political Consultative Conference. He is notable for serving as the general architect and designer of China's Shenzhou program from 1992 to 2006 overseeing the first six Shenzhou missions. In 2003, he was awarded the nation's highest scientific and technological prize, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, by President Hu Jintao.

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