Liu Yang is a Chinese People Liberation Army Air Force pilot and astronaut who became the first Chinese woman to fly in space, aboard the Shenzhou 9 mission in June 2012, which performed Chinas first crewed docking with the Tiangong-1 space laboratory. She later flew a second mission, Shenzhou 14, in 2022 to the newly completed Tiangong space station.
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Liu Yang was born on October 6, 1978, in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
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