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Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space. Liu Yang became the first female Chinese taikonaut in 2012. [8] [9] Throughout her astronautical career, Liu has been awarded the title of “Heroic Astronaut” and received the Third-class Space Service Medal for her work aboard the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-14 missions, respectively.
Wang Yaping (Chinese: 王亚平; pinyin: Wáng Yàpíng; born January 1980) is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. [4] Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk. [5]
Wang Haoze (Chinese: 王浩泽; born March 1990), is a Chinese aerospace engineer and astronaut.She is China's third female astronaut to space, and first woman engineer, as one of the crew members of Shenzhou 19 mission.
Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station. Fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s main ...
STORY: The three astronauts - commander Chen Dong and teammates Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe - who had been overseeing the final, pivotal period of construction at the space station, which was completed ...
First Chinese woman in space. Second Chinese woman and nineteenth woman to walk in space. Shenzhou 9 (Jun. 16, 2012), Shenzhou 14 (Jun. 5, 2022) 57 Wang Yaping Jan. 27, 1980 China: First Chinese woman on long duration expedition. Sixteenth woman to walk in space (November 7, 2021) during Shenzhou 13. First Chinese female astronaut to walk in space.
On Thursday, three Chinese astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center deep in the Gobi Desert, heading for the Tiangong space station for a six ...
Liu Yang was born in Zhengzhou, Henan province in 1978, [5] into a worker's family of Linzhou, Anyang origin. [6] [7] [8] Her father Liu Shilin (刘士林) was an assistant engineer in the technical department of Zhengzhou First Food Machinery Factory, and her mother Niu Xiyun (牛喜云) was a worker in Zhengzhou Light Automobile Manufacturing Factory. [6]