Liu Yang (astronaut)

• Shenzhou 9 (2012 )

Liu Yang (Chinese刘洋, Pinyin Liú Yáng; born October 6, 1978 in Linzhou, grew up in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, People's Republic of China) is a Chinese Taikonautin ( spaceflight ). In 2012 she was the first Chinese spaceflight aboard Shenzhou 9.

Personal

Liu grew up in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou in a working class family. After completing her education in 1994 and a college education in 1997 she joined the Army and completed in Changchun, a pilot training with the air forces of the People's Republic of China. Then she was as a combat pilot with 1680 flight hours in the rank of major at an air force unit in Wuhan. In May 2010, she was recruited as potential Taikonautin and completed a two-year spaceflight training program. With Shenzhou 9 she started on 16 June 2012 from the Jiuquan space center, to the day, 49 years after the start of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. During the twelve day stay in Earth orbit, the Chinese space station Tiangong 1 was put into operation and Liu led module in the medical experiments in the field of aerospace medicine.

Liu lives in Beijing, she has been married since May 2001 and member of the Communist Party of China.