Yang Liwei - Aftermath

Aftermath

In a similar move taken by the Soviet Union and the United States (with national space flight heroes Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, respectively), an official decision to no longer assign him to spaceflight missions was made (note: Glenn subsequently flew a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95). Yang was promoted to Major General on July 22, 2008.

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