Wang Yaping

Wang Yaping
王亚平
BornJanuary 1980 (age 44)[3]
StatusActive
Alma materChangchun Flight College
SpouseZhao Peng
Children1
Space career
PLAAC Taikonaut
Previous occupation
Military transport pilot, PLAAF
RankSenior Colonel, PLASSF
Time in space
197 days and 1 minute
SelectionChinese Group 2[1]
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
6 hours, 25 minutes[2]
MissionsShenzhou 10, Shenzhou 13
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese王亞平
Simplified Chinese王亚平
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWáng Yàpíng
IPA[wǎŋ jâpʰǐŋ]
Wang at Shenzhou 13 launch ceremony in October 2021

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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  3. ^ "中国首位进行太空授课的女航天员" (in Chinese). China Manned Space. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  4. ^ Si Tong (思童); Chen Lan (陈蓝) (2022). 最美太空老师王亚平:因热爱而执着,因梦想而坚持 [The most beautiful space teacher Wang Yaping: persistent because of love, persistent because of dreams]. Modern Youth (in Chinese). 469. Haikou, Hainan: Modern Youth Press: 8–11. ISSN 1004-2555.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference spacecom7nov21 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).