Liu Yang: China's first female astronaut
Saturday, June 16, 2012 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut.
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