{"id":146264,"date":"2026-02-16T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146264"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:00:57","slug":"chinas-first-man-in-space-yang-liwei-officially-retires-from-active-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146264","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first man in space Yang Liwei officially retires from active duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s first man in space, Yang Liwei, has officially retired from active duty, but he has not stopped training and remains ready to don a spacesuit again if needed.<br \/>\nHe said in a CCTV interview on Saturday that the country\u2019s first group of astronauts had been grounded in October according to regulations, but \u201cif our motherland needs us, we can resume flights\u201d.<br \/>\nYang, now a deputy chief designer for China\u2019s crewed space programme, was the first Chinese national to reach Earth\u2019s orbit in 2003.<br \/>\nOn&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3343746\/chinas-first-man-space-yang-liwei-officially-retires-active-duty?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s first man in space, Yang Liwei, has officially retired from active duty, but he has not stopped training and remains ready to don&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}