{"id":129145,"date":"2021-10-18T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/china-is-sending-the-first-woman-astronaut-to-its-brand-new-space-station"},"modified":"2021-10-18T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:22:17","slug":"china-is-sending-the-first-woman-astronaut-to-its-brand-new-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/china-is-sending-the-first-woman-astronaut-to-its-brand-new-space-station","title":{"rendered":"China Is Sending the First Woman Astronaut to Its Brand New Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-sending-the-first-woman-astronaut-to-its-brand-new-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has unveiled the crew for its Shenzou 13 mission to the country\u2019s brand new Tiangong space station, including the first female astronaut to venture to the outpost, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3152375\/china-unveils-shenzhou-13-crew-next-mission-tiangong-space\" class=\"\"><em>South China Morning Post<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Yaping will spend six months on board the space station \u2014 the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-10-china-astronauts-longest-crewed-mission.html\" class=\"\">longest<\/a> crewed mission to date \u2014 alongside astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu. She could also become the first female Chinese astronaut to complete a spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter eight years of relentless effort, I am going back to space again,\u201d Wang told reporters on Thursday, as quoted by <em>SCMP<\/em>. \u201cStudents, let me know what you want to learn this time. I will prepare a great lecture for you in orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has unveiled the crew for its Shenzou 13 mission to the country\u2019s brand new Tiangong space station, including the first female astronaut to venture to the outpost, the South China Morning Post reports. Wang Yaping will spend six months on board the space station \u2014 the country\u2019s longest crewed mission to date \u2014 alongside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}