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China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang, is expected to improve the Shenzhou-9 mission crew's working efficiency, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Friday.

"Generally speaking, female astronauts have better durability, psychological stability and ability to deal with loneliness," Wu Ping said at a press conference at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.

She added that a manned space program without the participation of women would be incomplete.

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 China's female astronaut quandary

China's space programme is preparing to make its own small piece of history by putting its first female astronaut into space, and China's internet has been buzzing with talk of some unusual selection criteria.
At a launch site in the desert the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft is being readied. It may blast off this weekend, and one of the three crew is likely to be a woman.
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China Mulls Sending Female taikonauts into Space

China is considering sending female taikonauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday.
Two female taikonauts have been selected for possible flights when spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and -10 are scheduled to dock with space lab module Tiangong-1 in 2012, said Chen Shanguang, director of the Astronaut Centre of China (ACC).
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China to launch first female astronauts

After the Opening Ceremony, Yang Liwei, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Flight Project, as well as the nation's first astronaut to travel into space, says a second crew of astronauts are now undergoing training. He adds that the country will send its first female astronauts into space by 2012.
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China's 1st 2 Women Astronauts Selected

China has selected its second batch of astronauts, including five men and two women, the first time women have joined the country's space mission.
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Any day now, at a hidden airbase in the forests of northeast China, a panel of doctors and air-force officers will make the final choice of the first Chinese woman to go into space. When that happens, she will step out of the shadows of military secrecy to become the most famous woman among 1.3 billion people.
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China selects female astronaut candidates
The preliminary selection for candidates of China's second batch of astronauts has finished, with candidates including 30 men and 15 women who are all airforce pilots, authorities said Thursday.
Among them, five men and two women would be final candidates to join the space program. And "it is the first time women have been up for selection in China's space development cause," authorities said.

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According to Chen Shanguang, director of the China Space Centre, China has at last begun to work on the selection process to train women taikonauts.
Studies about the impact of space flight on women have been initiated.

Women taikonauts may have different requirements to live aboard a spacecraft, Chinese researchers will have to make extensive studies, such as developing new space suits and devices for women.

China's Air Force Aeronautics University has already enrolled 35 women pilot trainees in July this year. This first group of female fighter pilots may contain the first female Chinese taikonaut.

"My dream is to become China's first female fighter pilot and first female taikonaut" - Tao Jiali, student from southwest China's Sichuan Province to the university.

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