Beijing: Wang Yaping became the first Chinese female astronaut to step into space when she moved out of the submarine space station and participated in outdoor vehicle activities with her male colleague Zhai Zhigang for more than six hours, official media reported here.
The two moved out of the space station core module called Tianhe and spent 6.5 hours of spacewalking in the early hours of Monday morning and successfully returned to the module, Xinhua news agency reported. This is the first spacewalk in Chinese space history involving a female astronaut. , the China Manned Space Agency.
China launched the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on October 16 and sent three astronauts on a six-month mission to the submarine space station, which is expected to be ready by next year.
Wang, a native of Shandong Province and mother of a five-year-old girl, joined the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in August 1997 and served as a deputy squadron commander before joining the second group of astronauts in May 2010. PLA Astronaut Division has joined.
She was selected for the current manned space mission in December 2019.
The mission further tested the features of the indigenously developed new-generation outdoor vehicle space packs, the coordination between the astronauts and the mechanical arm, and the reliability and safety of supporting equipment associated with the EVAs, Xinhua reported.
As the most coveted and strategically important space project for China after the country’s recent Mars and previous Moon missions, the low orbit space station would be the country’s eye from the sky, providing a bird’s eye view of the rest 24 hours a day of the world offers. .
Source: Telangana Today