In 2010, two women in China's second batch of astronaut selection stood out: Liu Yang and Wang Yaping. The two became the second batch of Chinese astronauts and the first female astronauts. In 2012, Liu Yang and Wang Yaping became popular candidates for the Shenzhou 9 female astronauts.
According to the final assessment results, Liu Yang was successfully selected into the Shenzhou 9 crew, and will be the first female astronaut in China to take the Shenzhou 9 into space and perform a thirteen-day space mission.
After the successful completion of the task, Liu Yang became famous and became the focus of attention of the people of the whole country. After all, she is the first space heroine in our country, and she has the courage not to let her eyebrows be shaved! Later, as China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang was also selected as the 2012 Chinese Sons and Daughters of the Year.
However, after Shenzhou 9, we rarely heard about Liu Yang, and she did not continue to follow the spacecraft into space. Now it has been 9 years since Liu Yang entered space, but in 9 years, Liu Yang has not carried out another mission, as if he has disappeared, why is this?
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Born in 1978, Liu Yang was admitted to the Changchun Flight Academy of the Air Force and became a female pilot. As a result, she became one of the first female pilots recruited by the Air Force in Henan Province since the founding of the People's Republic of China. After graduating from the Flight Academy, Liu Yang was assigned to a division of the Air Force Aviation Corps to continue his flying career.
In 2010, China conducted the second batch of astronaut selection. Liu Yang, who has always had a dream of spaceflight, signed up to participate, and after layers of selection, she became the second batch of astronauts in China. During the period, Liu Yang received training as astronauts in eight categories and dozens of subjects, such as basic theory, adaptability of the aerospace environment, aerospace professional technology, and mission simulation training, and achieved excellent results.
By the time he was selected as a crew member of Shenzhou 9 in 2012, Liu Yang was 34 years old. She had been married for 8 years at the time, and for her own space career, she kept postponing the birth time. Liu Yang finally became China's first female astronaut with his own efforts.
On June 16, 2012, Shenzhou 9 was launched according to the scheduled plan and entered the scheduled orbit. The mission of the three astronauts who entered space at that time was to meet and dock with the manned automatic rendezvous and docking mission of Tiangong-1!
This is an important part of China's manned space space rendezvous and docking project, laying a good and solid foundation for China's "Tiangong" space station in the future. On June 29, 2012, after completing its mission in orbit for 13 days, the Shenzhou 9 return module landed safely at the main landing site in Inner Mongolia.
Since then, except for the 2013 China Sons and Daughters annual figure award ceremony and the 2015 CCTV program "Love National Defense Good Family", Liu Yang has hardly appeared in the public eye, nor has he carried out another mission into space.
In fact, this is Liu Yang's personal choice, after returning to earth from the universe, after she weighed the relationship between career and family, Liu Yang chose the latter. Liu Yang did not return to his previous post, but turned to behind-the-scenes work to train excellent astronauts for the motherland. Although she no longer flew missions, she did not turn away from her beloved space career.
At the same time, Liu Yang finally has time to return to his family and put more thought into his own life. In 2015, in a speech on "Loving the National Defense And Good Family", she revealed the news that she had become a mother.
In addition to focusing on the motherland's aerospace industry, Liu Yang is constantly learning and improving himself. From 2014 to 2018, she passed the postgraduate and doctoral examinations of Tsinghua University, and now Liu Yang is not only an aerospace worker, but also has a doctorate degree in law.
Like Liu Yang, there are many astronauts in China who sacrifice themselves for the big me, they have given up a lot of personal interests to help China's space industry become more and more powerful, I believe that with their efforts, our country's space industry will usher in a new chapter.