06-16-2012 19:12 BJT | CCTV
Watch China first female astronaut amusing herself in space (14min20sec onward)
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China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has taken off on China's fourth manned space mission on
Saturday from the Gobi desert in the country's northwest.
The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft is aiming to achieve the first manual space docking high above Earth.
The crew is headed by Jing Haipeng, a veteran astronaut who has gone to space twice already. Liu
Wang, who has been in the space program for 14 years, is in charge of manual docking manoeuvres.
Liu Yang, 33, has created a stir in the media and online for becoming China's first woman to travel
to space. She will be conducting aerospace medical experiments and other space tests.
The mission will last 10 days, during which the crew will perform experiments and the manual space
docking - a highly technical procedure that brings two vessels together in high speed orbit.
Successful completion of the space rendezvous - which will see Shenzhou-9 attach itself to the
Tiangong-1 module currently orbiting Earth - will take China one step nearer to setting up its own
space station in 2020.
Watch China first female astronaut amusing herself in space (14min20sec onward)
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ODOBYZpDtDE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has taken off on China's fourth manned space mission on
Saturday from the Gobi desert in the country's northwest.
The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft is aiming to achieve the first manual space docking high above Earth.
The crew is headed by Jing Haipeng, a veteran astronaut who has gone to space twice already. Liu
Wang, who has been in the space program for 14 years, is in charge of manual docking manoeuvres.
Liu Yang, 33, has created a stir in the media and online for becoming China's first woman to travel
to space. She will be conducting aerospace medical experiments and other space tests.
The mission will last 10 days, during which the crew will perform experiments and the manual space
docking - a highly technical procedure that brings two vessels together in high speed orbit.
Successful completion of the space rendezvous - which will see Shenzhou-9 attach itself to the
Tiangong-1 module currently orbiting Earth - will take China one step nearer to setting up its own
space station in 2020.
