China to send its 1st woman astronaut Liu Yang on saturday June 16,2012 in Shenzhou-9 spacecraft.She along with her two male crew members Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang addressed the media before getting ready to join the count down to blast off on Saturday evening from a launch site in the Gobi desert.
The three astronauts, who are all members of the ruling Communist Party of China, will board the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China to fulfill the country's first manned space docking mission in a key step towards becoming only the third nation after US and Russia to set up a permanent base in orbit.
All three crew members are former pilots of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
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