Liu Yang will join Jing
Haipeng and Liu Wang as part of a three-person crew aboard the
Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, which, if successful, will conduct a historic
docking with China's orbiting space module.
Like Wang Yaping, the
other woman considered for the coveted slot, Liu Yang is married, in her
early 30s and chosen among China's first batch of women astronauts
because of her strong flying record and mental toughness.
The launch of China's
first woman taikonaut (which combines the Chinese "taikong," or space,
and the Greek "nautes," or sailor) into space would come exactly 49
years to the day that the former Soviet Union put its first woman,
Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
It's about time.
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