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Nov
Chinese military pilot Wang Yaping on Monday became the country’s first woman astronaut to walk in space as she moved out of the under-construction space station and took part in extravehicular activities along with her male colleague, the official media here reported. Wang and Zhai Zhigang moved out of the space station core module called Tianhe and spent six and a half hours walking in space early on Monday. Later they successfully returned to the module, Xinhua news agency reported. This marks the first spacewalk in Chinese space history by a woman astronaut, the China Manned Space Agency said in…