This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

First Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Wang Yaping, who will spend six months on the space station with male colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, will also become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk on the upcoming Shenzhou 13 mission.

Shenzhou 13

The second crewed flight to the Chinese Tiangong space station. Commander Zhai Zhigang made his second flight to space while Operators officers Wang Yaping and Ye Guagfu made their second and first, respectively.

Shenzhou is a Soyuz-derived spacecraft built and flown by China. Larger than its Russian counterpart, Shenzhou is made up of three parts. Like Soyuz, only the reentry module with the crew survives reentry and landing.

Shenzhou

Shenzhou 10

Lasting 14 days, this was China's second and last docking to the Tiangong 1 space station. The crew performed medical experiment and technology demonstration tests. The crew also tested evacuation and redocking procedures for future Chinese space stations.

Wang Yaping

China

Shenzhou 13 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 12

The mission was China’s first crew launch since 2016 and lasted three months. At the Chinese Space Station, the three taikonauts activated systems, performed experiments, and prepared for the upcoming addition of two new science modules to the laboratory.

Shenzhou 6

Shenzhou 6 was the first multi-day and multi-person human spaceflight by China. The two-person crew performed a full checkout of the Shenzhou Orbital and Descent Modules, performed science experiments, and were the first Chinese taikonauts to change out of their pressure suits after launch.

Nie Haisheng

Shenzhou 7

The first three-person human spaceflight by China saw the crew perform the first Chinese spacewalk. Over three days in space, the crew conducted experiments, deployed a small satellite, and communicated to the ground through China's new data relay satellite, Tianlian I.

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