Wang Yaping is a Chinese People Liberation Army Air Force pilot and astronaut who became the second Chinese woman to fly in space, aboard the Shenzhou 10 mission in 2013, during which she delivered a widely watched science lecture broadcast live to students across China from orbit. She later flew aboard the Shenzhou 13 mission in 2021 to the new Tiangong space station, during which she became the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.
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1. Spacefacts.de: Spacefacts biography: Wang Yaping
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Selection date: 05.05.2010
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is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut.
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Wang Yaping (Chinese: 王亚平; pinyin: Wáng Yàpíng; born January 1980) is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut.
Operated By: People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, Article text: agency link
Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.
Associated With: China Manned Space Agency, Article text: associated organization
On 7 November, the China Manned Space Agency announced that a spacewalk was underway and it was being performed by astronauts Zhai Zhigang, the Shenzhou 13 mission commander, and Wang Yaping, who was now China's first female spacewalker.
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