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| − | '''Wang Yaping''' ('''王亚平'''), a former air force pilot, | + | '''Wang Yaping''' ('''王亚平'''), a former air force pilot, joins a crew of three on [[Shenzhou 10]] on June 11, 2013 and becomes only the second woman astronaut in space after [[Liu Yang]] who was on board the Shenzhou 9 mission in 2012. |
Wang was 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 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 | + | Wang was born in Jan., 1980, 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. |
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Revision as of 02:44, 14 June 2013
Wang Yaping (王亚平), a former air force pilot, joins a crew of three on Shenzhou 10 on June 11, 2013 and becomes only the second woman astronaut in space after Liu Yang who was on board the Shenzhou 9 mission in 2012.
Wang was 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 Jan., 1980, 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.
