March 2015
Sowing a new dream
My name is Wang Yaping and I am a taikonaut. Fifty-one years ago, Russian... “manly” style in training that our commander Nie Haisheng told the media during an interview, “Yaping is a nice girl, we always want to take care of her. But it seems she ...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China. The crew consists of commander Zhai Zhigang, military pilot Wang Yaping and newcomer Ye Guangfu. Zhigang, 55, is a former People's Liberation Army (PLA) fighter pilot who in 2008 performed the...
