Astronaut Wang Yaping ventured outside the space station “Tiangong” for about six hours on the 8th of November. She did this spacewalk to install a device with one of her crew members, respectively, Zhai Zhigang. The three-membered crew of Shenzhou-13 is currently on a six-month mission that started in October to move construction forward at the Chinese space station.
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Wang Yaping, 41, made history on November 8th by becoming the first Chinese woman ever to conduct a spacewalk according to the National Space Agency. She is one among the three astronauts also called Taikonauts which is China’s term for the country’s astronauts/space explorers as one would say – currently at the Tiangong space station. She is a member of the Shenzhou-13 crew, that took off from the launch hub located at Gobi Desert on October 16 to complete the six-month mission in the Tianhe module, which is the core of the space station.
A video was released by the flight control centre that has now gone viral on the social media of China where the people can see that a while after Wang stepped out into the space from the cabin of the space station, she waved to the audiences on Earth and she also said that she felt great being there. According to a media release from the China Manned Space Agency (CMS), Wang and her other crew members, astronaut Zhai Zhigang, 55, left the Tianhe module and for about six hours ventured outside in the space to install equipment and test the robotic arm of the station. While the two worked out in the space, the third member of the Shenzhou-13 crew, Ye Guangfu, stayed inside the space station in order to support the other two member’s spacewalk from the core module.
