Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping made history Sunday when she became the country’s first woman to conduct a spacewalk, according to the national space agency. Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang ...

Wang Yaping, 41, will be the first female "taikonaut" — the term China uses for its astronauts — to board the station. She and two male colleagues, commander Zhai Zhigang, 55, and Ye Guangfu ...

Astronaut Wang Yaping ventured outside China's Tiangong space station for six hours on November 8. She made the spacewalk to install equipment with fellow Shenzhou-13 crew member Zhai Zhigang.

During the mission, astronaut Wang Yaping carried out the first spacewalk by a Chinese woman. Wang and crewmates Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu beamed back physics lessons for high school students.

BEIJING — Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station. Fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station ...

Wang Yaping is used to making history. She became the second woman from China to enter space, on June 11, 2013, and the first woman to enter the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, on ...

Wang Yaping flew to the Tianhe core module in October aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft along with her colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu. An image taken by Wang on Nov. 18 shows Qinghai lake ...

The new crew includes Wang Yaping, 41, who is the first Chinese woman to board the Tiangong space station, and is expected to become China's first female spacewalker. "We'll co-operate with each ...

In a further sign that China is edging ahead as the world’s dominant space power, Wang Yaping – the second Chinese woman in space – gave a physics lesson to school children from zero gravity.

"I am looking forward to the upcoming two sessions, and I'm eager to hear suggestions on how to better use the space station," said Wang Yaping from space, who is a deputy to the National People's ...

Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping made history Sunday when she became the country’s first woman to conduct a spacewalk, according to the national space agency. Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang ...