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Revision as of 05:02, 2 April 2013
Air Force Lieutenant Wang Yaping (王亚平) is one of the two candidates to become China's first female astronaut in space on the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft. But she lost to Liu Yang, the other candidate to be in the three-member crew.
Wang was born in April, 1978, in east China's Shandong Province. She is the eldest of two daughters. In 1997, she enrolled at the Changchun Air Force Aviation College. Wang Yaping first took to the air in 1998 and subsequently racked up more than 800 flying hours during the next nine years. In 2001, now holding a bachelor's degree in military science, Wang was assigned as a military air transport pilot in Wuhan. Since then, she has carried out many important tasks including military exercises, disaster relief operations following the Wenchuan Earthquake and rain cloud dispersal operations during the Beijing Olympics.
As one of the 7th batch of Chinese female pilots, Wang is trained to pilot four types of aircraft. Her husband is also a pilot.
The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was launched on June 16, 2012. Three astronauts, two male Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang and one female Liu Yang, boarded Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to fulfill China's first manned space docking mission.