China’s female astronauts could fly into space as soon as the latter half of next year, said a senior official in charge of the manned space program on Friday. According to the program schedule, a space module Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft will be launched in the latter half of this year in the first unmanned rendezvous and docking mission. Yang Liwei, deputy director of China Manned Space Engineering Office and also China’s first astronaut in space, said that next year C ...

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