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Wang Yaping

Wang Yaping
The latest news and top stories on Wang Yaping, Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. She is known as the second Chinese woman in space and the first to perform a spacewalk. Her career highlights include the Shenzhou 10 mission where she delivered China’s first live physics lesson from orbit. On the Shenzhou 13 mission she became the first Chinese woman to board the Tiangong space station, setting a record for longest cumulative stay in space by a female Chinese astronaut. She also participated in filming the first Chinese movie entirely in space.
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