Astronaut Yang Liwei, the icon, is everywhere in China, lionized in the state-run press and on television not only as the country’s first man in space, but also as an elite pilot, a star student ...

When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history making moment that declared his country’s arrival as an emerging space power.

When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history making moment that declared his country’s arrival as an emerging space power.

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Authorized by Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut to enter space, the Beijing Science and Technology Press (BSTP) published the picture book "First Man" on Sunday ...

China 's first astronaut Yang Liwei on board of Shenzhou V talked to Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan at about 5:30 pm Wednesday (Beijing time) via live communication systems. With the live ...

A preselected crowd of flag-waving youngsters greeted China’s first astronaut Friday in Hong Kong, but many in this territory have been less than awed by Lt. Col. Yang Liwei’s trip through space.

China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei (left) got a visit in September 2006 from Leroy Chiao, the first astronaut of Chinese descent to walk in space. Courtesy Leroy Chiao. It appeared ...

Even for me, an Australian national who has spent a third of my life in Taiwan and none of it on the mainland, watching the media frenzy surrounding Yang Liwei's successful space flight was a ...

Gobi Desert, China (CNN) — When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history making moment that declared his country’s arrival as an emerging space power.