Li Guangsu
李广苏
Li in 2025
Born	July 1987 (age 38) Pei County, Jiangsu
Status	Active
Alma mater	PLA Air Force Aviation University
Space career
PLAAC astronaut
Previous occupation	Fighter pilot, PLAAF
Rank	Lieutenant colonel, PLAAF
Time in space	192 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes
Selection	Chinese Group 3
Total EVAs	1
Total EVA time	8 hours, 23 minutes[1]
Missions	Shenzhou 18
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	李广苏
Traditional Chinese	李廣蘇
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Guǎngsū

Li Guangsu (Chinese: 李广苏; born July 1987) is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut.^[2][3][4]

Biography

Li was born in the town of Huzhai [zh], Pei County, Jiangsu, in July 1987, to Li Houlin (李厚林), and Xu Guilan (徐桂兰).^[5] He has an older sister and a younger brother.^[6]

He applied for recruitment of Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force Aviation University in 2005. He graduated from the People's Liberation Army Air Force Aviation University.^[6][4] He was enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 2006, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 2011.^[6][7][8]

Guangsu once served as the lieutenant colonel of a flying brigade of the Air Force Aviation Brigade and was first class pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force.^[9][10] He participated in the astronaut selection in May 2018 and was selected as a fourth grade astronaut into the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps in September 2020.^[6][11]

In 2024, he was selected as a crew member of Shenzhou 18, becoming the second astronaut from Pei County after Zhu Yangzhu.^[12][13] Shenzhou 18 launched on 24 April 2024, docking successfully with Tiangong on the same day, and landed on 3 November 2024 after 192 days in space.

References

See also

• List of Chinese astronauts
• Tiangong space station