First Chinese woman walks in space, scripts history
Beijing: Chinese military pilot Wang Yaping scripted history on Monday when she became the country’s first woman astronaut to walk in space as she moved out of the under-construction space station and took part in extravehicular activities along with her male colleague, the official media here reported. This marks the first spacewalk in Chinese space history involving a woman astronaut. PTI
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