Wang Yaping

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Wang Yaping
Wang Yaping
Country: China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Organization: Space Corps of the
People's Liberation Army
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: 11th of June 2013
Landing: June 26, 2013
Time in space: 14d 14h 29min
Space flights

Wang Yaping ( Chinese  王亚平 , Pinyin Wáng Yàpíng ; born January 27, 1980 in Yantai , Shandong Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese military pilot and member of the Space Corps of the People's Liberation Army . She is the second Chinese space traveler.

Youth and service in the Air Force

Wang Yaping grew as older of two daughters of a peasant family in the village of Cherry Zhanggezhuang (张格庄村) the greater community Zhanggezhuang (张格庄镇) of the municipality Fushan the prefecture-level city of Yantai on. After attending the Zhanggezhuang Central Comprehensive School (张 格 庄 中心 完全 小学) from 1986, she moved to the 23rd grammar school in Yantai in 1991, then in 1994 for the upper school to the 1st grammar school in Fushan. Wang Yaping had always been a good athlete since elementary school. Her high school diploma was easily enough for the Chinese Air Force Aviation Academy in Changchun (中国人民解放军 空军 长春 飞行 学院); on August 1, 1997, at the age of 17, she joined the People's Liberation Army . Like her future astronaut colleague Liu Yang , who joined the VBA on the same day (at the age of 18) and also studied at the Changchun Aviation Academy, she was one of the 7th class of Chinese fighter pilots. In April 1999 the two transferred to the 1st Pilot Academy of the Chinese Air Force in Harbin (中国人民解放军 空军 第一 飞行 学院), where they completed their pilot training in 2001.

Together with Liu Yang, she was assigned to an air transport squadron stationed in Wuhan in the then Guangzhou military district in June 2001 and, among other things, flew relief supplies to Sichuan in May 2008 when a severe earthquake struck Wenchuan County there . At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in August 2008, she was part of the unit that, by spraying silver iodide, triggered the monsoon rains that are common at this time of year far from the city, thus ensuring good weather for the competitions. Wang Yaping is certified for four types of aircraft and has completed 1,600 accident-free flight hours during her time as a pilot, for which she was awarded the Level II Military Aircraft Pilot . She rose to the position of deputy squadron commander with the rank of major in her unit.

Service in the space corps

The teaching materials used by Wang on the space station.

In May 2010, Wang Yaping was recruited as a space trainee and completed a two-year space training program. She was a candidate for the Shenzhou 9 Mission in 2012.

In April 2013, she was selected for the Shenzhou 10 mission , and on June 11, 2013, she launched from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome for the Chinese Tiangong 1 Space Station . On June 20, she held a lesson from space for Chinese students, during which she carried out various physical experiments and thus demonstrated the influence of weightlessness. 330 pupils in Beijing were connected directly via video conference, and the live broadcast was followed on television in more than 80,000 Chinese schools.

Wang Yaping joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 2000 . She was elected to parliament in the elections for the National People's Congress in December 2017 / January 2018 in the constituency of the People's Liberation Army / Armed People's Police (because of the constant transfers, soldiers and armed people's police vote in a separate, nationwide "constituency"). Since the beginning of 2019 she has been taking part in the training for the construction of the Chinese space station , where, in addition to operating the scientific payloads, above all assembly and maintenance work outside the station is practiced. When you have completed the selection process for the third year of the astronaut corps of the People's Liberation Army in July 2020 [date] will work as an instructor for new recruits and recruits.

marital status

Wang Yaping has been married to fighter pilot Zhao Peng (赵鹏) since October 1, 2006 and has a daughter since 2016.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Jason Davis: China readies three taikonauts for station visit. Planetary Society, June 12, 2012, accessed June 26, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Shenzhou 10 astronauts celebrate Dragon Boat Festival in space. Shanghai is June 12, 2013, accessed June 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Taikonaut Wang Yaping gives physics lesson from space. China Radio International, June 20, 2013, accessed June 21, 2013 .
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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Yaping is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Wang, Yaping
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 王亚平 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese military pilot and spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Yantai , Shandong , People's Republic of China