China made history today when it launched a spacecraft carrying the nation’s first female astronaut in space.
The Shenzhou-9 launched at 6:37 p.m. local time (6:37 a.m. ET), carrying Liu Yang and two male astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang.
The launch from a satellite center in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu Province, was aired on state television, CCTV.
Liu, 33, was the deputy head of a flight unit of the PLA’s Air Force and an air force major, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
She is also a veteran pilot with 1,680 hours of flying experience and excelled in testing after two years of training.
If all goes well, the Shenzhou-9 will dock with China’s orbiting space laboratory, making the nation the third after the United States and Russia to complete a manned space docking.
From CNN.com
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