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China launched its first crewed space mission, Shenzhou 5, in 2003, with a single male taikonaut aboard.Following the mission's success, Gu Xiulian, president of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), recommended to the Chinese space program that women should be considered for spaceflight selection.
China: 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 ...
First Indian in space. Soyuz T-11/10 (April 3, 1984) 4 Taylor Wang June 16, 1940 United States ( Republic of China) First person of Chinese ancestry in space. Second Asian American in space, after Ellison Onizuka. STS-51-B (April 29, 1985) 5 Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud June 27, 1956 Saudi Arabia: First Saudi and first Arab in space.
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 (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]
Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space. China has sent two women to space. In 2012, the Chinese space program sent their first woman Liu Yang to space aboard Shenzhou 9 to dock with Tiangong-1. China's first female astronaut candidates, chosen in 2010 from the ranks of fighter pilots, were required to be married mothers. [68]
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Second Chinese female taikonaut and the first Chinese woman to travel twice in space. First Chinese woman to walk in space. Chen Dong: 陈冬 Shenzhou 11 (October 17–November 18, 2016) Shenzhou 14 (June 5–December 4, 2022) Conducted multiple space experiments. Tang Hongbo: 汤洪波 Shenzhou 12 (June 17–September 17, 2021)