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, two of the three-member team currently at China's new Tiangong space station, successfully completed the 6.5 hour spacewalk in the early hours of Monday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency .The third member of the Shenzhou-13 crew, Ye Guangfu, stayed on the space station to support the spacewalk from the core module.
CNN gained rare access to China's space city in 2015 03:59"When I looked out of the window for the first time, I realized the true meaning of the power of life... that kind of beauty was just beyond comprehension," she said.State media and CMSA highlighted her achievement as well after Sunday's successful spacewalk. Before Wang, only 15 women globally had conducted spacewalks since 1984, when Soviet astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first to do so.
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