Wang Yaping is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut.
12 Facts About Wang Yaping
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Wang Yaping was born in the prefecture of Yantai, in Shandong province.
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Wang Yaping was admitted to the Changchun Flight College of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and joined the force in August 1997.
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Wang Yaping was from the seventh batch of female military pilots in China, one of 37 members, and graduated from Aviation University and flight school in 2001 with the rank of First Lieutenant.
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At that time Wang Yaping was a captain in the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
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Wang Yaping was a candidate for the space mission Shenzhou 9 in 2012.
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Wang Yaping became the second Chinese female spacefarer as a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew, which orbited the Earth in June 2013, and of the Tiangong-1 orbiting space station with which it docked.
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Wang Yaping was one of two women in space on the 50th anniversary of Vostok 6, the first spaceflight by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova.
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In March 2018, Wang Yaping was elected for a five-year-term as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
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In October 2021, it was announced that Wang Yaping was selected as one of the three crew members to fly on Shenzhou 13 to the Tiangong space station, marking her second spaceflight and the first time a Chinese woman would travel to space twice.
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Wang Yaping was to be the first female astronaut to board the Tiangong space station and to perform an extravehicular activity.
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Wang Yaping is studying for a doctoral degree in psychology at Peking University.