China’s First Female Astronaut Returns From Space | Talking Points Memo

CNN reports that Liu Yang, the first female taikonaut in space, has returned safely after spending ten days in space as part of a docking mission. Yang was one of three taikonauts returning from China’s ambitious mission, which saw the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft dock with the Tiangon-1 space laboratory, the first manual docking in the country’s history.


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