Liu Yang
Chinese - ( CNSA)
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Date of Birth: Oct. 6, 1978
Age: 43
Liu Yang (born October 6, 1978) is a Chinese pilot and astronaut who served as a crew member on the space mission Shenzhou 9. On June 16, 2012, Liu became the first Chinese woman in space.
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou-9 & Shenzhou-9-GC
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
June 16, 2012, 10:37 a.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
This is the fourth crewed mission for China's Shenzhou program which lasted 12 days. Being the first crewed spacecraft to visit the Tiangong-1 space station, it brought up the astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and the first Chinese female astronaut Lie Yang. They docked automatically to the station on 18 June. During their stay in the station, astronauts conducted various scientific and technological experiments, and performed manual re-docking on 24 June. Shenzhou 9 undocked on 29 June and landed safely back on Earth the same day.
Low Earth Orbit
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for the national space program and for planning and development of space activities. CNSA and China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) assumed the authority over space development efforts previously held by the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. The CNSA has many launch sites around China with their orbital sites located in Jiuquan, Xichang, Taiyuan and Wenchang.
LauncherOne
Straight Up
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitLaunch contracted by the U.S. Space Force for the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), with payloads provided by the DoD Space Test Program (STP) as…
Atlas V 541
USSF-12
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USATwo US national security payloads. The first is the Space Force's Wide Field of View (WFOV) Testbed satellite, the second is a multi-manifest satelli…
PSLV
DS-EO & others
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaDS-EO is an electro-optical multispectral Earth observation satellite for DSTA from Singapore. Secondary payloads are NeuSAR and SCOOB-I, both also f…
Falcon 9
SES-22
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGeostationary communications satellite
Electron
CAPSTONE
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandCAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in nea…
