taikonaut

The term taikonaut is used by some English-language news media organizations for professional space travelers from China.

TV commercials in China since 2003 have shown a taikonaut walking on the moon demonstrating the ultimate goal of the Chinese program.

The successful orbiting of a "taikonaut" (Chinese astronaut) in 2003 was a dramatic assertion of China's rise.

In which we deny Lembit Opik his umlaut and consider the difference between an astronaut and a taikonaut.

In 2003, China launched its first 'taikonaut' into space: Yang Liwei in Shenzhou-5.

The Chinese space program began in the 1960s but it was not internationally recognised until the launching of Shenzhou V, which put China's first taikonaut into space.

He commanded the first manned mission to dock with the first Chinese space station, Tiangong 1, and with the first female taikonaut, Liu Yang.

The scheduled 13-day mission includes China's first female taikonaut and is scheduled to rendezvous and dock with the country's Tiangong-1 space station module on Monday, 18 June 2012.

He accumulated 5896 parabolas, totalling 32h 19m in weightlessness, equivalent to 21.5 Earth orbits, more than the first American Astronauts, the first Russian Cosmonauts and the first Chinese Taikonaut.

State television reported that the touchdown occurred at 6:23 a.m, about 21 hours after the spaceship blasted off on Wednesday from the Gobi Desert carrying the nation's first "taikonaut," Yang Liwei, a lieutenant colonel in the Chinese military.