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Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
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Born 6 October 1978 · Q235266
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2026· 6 entries
ABC: Antonio Liu Yang, abogado: «Un chino envidia de un español su estilo de vida despreocupado, de trabajar ocho horas y tener el resto del tiempo para tu familia»
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ABC15 Arizona: Andrew Yang on where politics goes from here
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U.OSU: Taiwanese Face, Chinese Masks: Yang Mu and His Postcolonial Poetry
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iChongqing: China’s Chongqing Builds Its AI Strategy Around Compute, Power and Manufacturing | Yang Talks
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CNBC: Watch CNBC's full interview with Forward Party's Andrew Yang
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2023· 1 entry
Won Spaceflight Exploit Medal (2023).
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2022· 2 entries
Liu became the second Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk
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Liu launched aboard Shenzhou 14 to the Tiangong space station for a mission of approximately 6 months, during which she assisted with the station's assembly and expansion
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2012· 3 entries
49 years to the day after the first female space traveller, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, was launched
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Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9
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Won Spaceflight Exploit Medal (2012).
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1997· 1 entry
And qualified as a pilot before becoming the deputy head of a flight unit, holding the PLAAF rank of major
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1978· 2 entries
Born 1978-10-06.
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Into a worker's family of Linzhou, Anyang origin
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