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China Sends Their First Woman to The Final Frontier

Liu Yang, is a 33 year old Pilot in the Chinese Air Force, and the first female astronaut for China.  She along with crew mates, Liu Wang, and mission commander Jing Haipeng, made a manual docking with the Tiangong 1 module this past Sunday.  This is was only China's fourth manned space flight, and is part of a program to launch their own independent space station, with aspirations of continuing on from there to landing men on the surface of the Moon once again.

"BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts carried out a manual docking with an orbiting module on Sunday, a first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-06-24/chinese-spacecraft-docks/55788664/1

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