This undated photo shows Liu Yang, 34, one of the three taikonauts who will be carried by the Shenzhou-9 spaceship for China's first manned space docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space ...

NAPLES, Italy - On June 16, 33-year-old Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman to reach space when she and two male crewmates blasted off aboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft. Two days later ...

A capsule carrying commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at approximately 8:10 p.m. (1210 GMT), China ...

On board the Shenzhou 9 will be another first: the Sally Ride of China. Liu Yang, a 34-year-old fighter pilot, will become China's first female astronaut to travel into space. After conquering a ...

Liu Yang has become China's first woman in space, after she and two male colleagues were blasted off from the edge of the Gobi Desert en route for the Tiangong space module. The 33-year-old is a ...