China’s first woman astronaut ventures out for a spacewalk
Wang Yaping has become China's first female astronaut to conduct a spacewalk on Sunday. Wang, 41, and her mission commander Zhai Zhigang – both members of the Shenzhou-13 crew – are conducting their first extravehicular activities or EVAs since they entered the space station core moduleTianhe in mid-October, CGTN quoted officials of the China Manned Space Engineering Office as saying. The operations started at 6:51 pm Beijing Time (or 3:51pm Pakistan time) on Sunday, when Zhai opened the hatch of Tianhe’s node cabin. By 1:16 am Monday (Beijing time or 10:16pm Sunday PST), Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping had safely returned to China’s Tianhe space station. Their ...
7 Nov 00:00 · SAMAA