Wang Yaping
Wang Yaping | |||||||||
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| 王亚平 | |||||||||
| Born | January 1980 (age 45) | ||||||||
| Status | Active | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Changchun Flight College | ||||||||
| Spouse | Zhao Peng | ||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||
| Space career | |||||||||
| PLAAC Taikonaut | |||||||||
Previous occupation | Military transport pilot, PLAAF | ||||||||
| Rank | Senior Colonel, PLASSF | ||||||||
Time in space | 197 days and 1 minute | ||||||||
| Selection | Chinese Group 2 | ||||||||
Total EVAs | 1 | ||||||||
Total EVA time | 6 hours, 25 minutes | ||||||||
| Missions | Shenzhou 10, Shenzhou 13 | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 王亞平 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 王亚平 | ||||||||
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Wang Yaping (Chinese: 王亚平; pinyin: Wáng Yàpíng; born January 1980) is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.
In April 2022, she set a new record for longest stay in space by a female Chinese astronaut with a cumulative 197 days in space.