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 Ground Control To Major Liu

According to the official Xinhua news agency, Liu Yang joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1997 and became a veteran pilot after flying for 1,680 hours without incident. She was recruited as a prospective astronaut in May 2010 and selected in March of this year to possibly crew the Shenzhou-9.
Besides Liu, the two other crew members are mission commander Jing Haipeng, 46, and flight engineer Liu Wang, 42.
Liu's maiden flight comes 49 years after Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's 1963 Vostok 6 mission, a launch that made Tereshkova the first woman in space.
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Liu Yang, a 33-year-old former pilot, has been selected as China's first female taikonaut, taking her place as one of three members of China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft crew.
As the long-awaited threesome was unveiled on Friday, it was revealed that the crew also includes Jing Haipeng, who will become China's first astronaut to travel twice into space, when Shenzhou-9 is scheduled to take off at 6:37 p.m. Saturday.
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China could launch its first woman into space as early as 2012, state media reported.
Yang Liwei, who in 2003 became China's first taikonaut and is now in charge of new recruits for the space programme, said the search for the first woman in space was under way, the China Daily said.

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