"Men and women have their advantages and capabilities in carrying out space missions. They can complement each other and better complete their mission,¡± says Liu Yang, an alumna from the School of Social Sciences at ÃÛÌÒapp who carries out the spaceflight mission of Shenzhou-14 launched today.
China's first female astronaut in space, Yang served as a crew member of Shenzhou-9, the first manned mission to the Chinese space station Tiangong 1 in 2012, and performed experiments in space medicine. ¡°I have full confidence. Many foreign female astronauts have been into space.¡±
Before taking astronaut training, she was a veteran pilot with 1,680 hours of flying experience. "When I was a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space. This will be a much higher and farther flight.¡±



