China 'to send its first woman into space'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telegraph

China 'to send its first woman into space'
China may send its first woman into space this year after including female astronauts in the team training for its first manned space docking, state media said on Monday.
8:11AM GMT 12 Mar 2012

Three astronauts will blast off on board Shenzhou ("Divine Vessel&quot IX between June and August to conduct a manual docking with the Tiangong-1 module currently orbiting the Earth, Xinhua news agency said, quoting an official with China's manned space programme.

A team of astronauts, including an unspecified number of women, are training for the docking mission and the three-person crew will be selected at the last minute, said Niu Hongguang, deputy commander-in-chief.

After the space rendezvous, the astronauts will move temporarily into Tiangong-1 ("Heavenly Palace&quot , where they will perform scientific experiments.

The mission is the latest step in a programme aimed at giving China a permanent space station by 2020.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9137586/China-to-send-its-first-woman-into-space.html

[DonCoquixote]

2. Still no reason to celebrate

Because what they seek to get done may involve a lot of censoring and overall cheapening of life. Hitler was effecient too, that did not make him anything to admire.