February 13, 2015 09:33 am | Updated November 17, 2021 12:29 am IST - BEIJING
China's first female astronaut Liu Yang waves as she comes out of the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. File photo
China’s first female astronaut has begun training for her next mission after giving birth to her first child.
The China Daily newspaper on Friday quoted Liu Yang as confirming the birth at an award ceremony this week but gave no further details.
It quoted her saying she was already in training for the next mission.
Ms. Liu was a member of the three-person Shenzhou 9 mission that flew the first trip to China’s experimental space station Tiangong 1 in 2012.
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