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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- ^ 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.
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