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Liu Yang

China

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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Birth Year
1978 1
Nationality
Chinese 1
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1. Liu Yang - Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia biography
    Liu Yang was born on October 6, 1978, in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
  • Wikipedia biography [nationality]
    On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
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Wikidata: Liu Yang
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