Wang Yaping: first Chinese woman walks in space, scripts history

Wang Yaping on Monday became the first Chinese woman astronaut to walk in space as she moved out of the under-construction space station.

Wang Yaping took part in extravehicular activities for over six hours along with her male colleague Zhai Zhigang.

The two moved out of the space station core module called Tianhe and spent 6.5 hours of the spacewalk and successfully returned to the module, Xinhua news agency reported.

China had launched the Shenzhou-13 spaceship on October 16, sending three astronauts on a six-month mission.

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A native of Shandong province and mother of a five-year-old girl, Wang joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force in August 1997 and served as a deputy squadron commander before joining the second group of astronauts at the PLA Astronaut Division in May 2010.