Wang Yaping
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Key facts
- Born
- January 1980 (age 46) , Yantai , Shandong, China
- Alma mater
- Changchun Flight College
- Spouse
- Zhao Peng
- Previous occupation
- Military transport pilot , People's Liberation Army Air Force
- Status
- Active
- Rank
- Senior colonel , People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
- Time in space
- 197 days, 1 minute
- Selection
- Chinese Group 2 (2010)
- Total eva time
- 6 hours, 25 minutes
- Missions
- Shenzhou 10 , Shenzhou 13
- Traditional chinese
- 王亞平
- Simplified chinese
- 王亚平
- Hanyu pinyin
- Wáng Yàpíng
- Ipa
- [wa ̌ ŋ ja ̂ pʰi ̌ ŋ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wang
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Yantai
- Political party
- Chinese Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Image
- Wang Yaping in 2021.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1980-01-00
- P450
- Shenzhou 13
- time in space
- 283681
- name in native language
- 王亚平
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- Wang Yaping
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Encyclopedic overview
Wang at Shenzhou 13 launch ceremony in October 2021
Wang Yaping (Chinese: 王亚平; pinyin: Wáng Yàpíng; born January 1980) is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.
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