Wang Yaping | |||||||||
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王亚平 | |||||||||
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Born | January 1980 (age 44)[3] | ||||||||
Status | Active | ||||||||
Alma mater | Changchun Flight College | ||||||||
Spouse | Zhao Peng | ||||||||
Children | 1 | ||||||||
Space career | |||||||||
PLAAC Taikonaut | |||||||||
Previous occupation | Military transport pilot, PLAAF | ||||||||
Rank | Senior Colonel, PLASSF | ||||||||
Time in space | 197 days and 1 minute | ||||||||
Selection | Chinese Group 2[1] | ||||||||
Total EVAs | 1 | ||||||||
Total EVA time | 6 hours, 25 minutes[2] | ||||||||
Missions | Shenzhou 10, Shenzhou 13 | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 王亞平 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 王亚平 | ||||||||
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Wang Yaping (Chinese: 王亚平; pinyin: Wáng Yàpíng; born January 1980) is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut.[4] Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.[5]
In April 2022, she set a new record for longest stay in space by a female Chinese astronaut with a cumulative 197 days in space.
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