It might not have been a giant step for mankind, but the launch Saturday of a piloted space capsule to dock with China’s space station prototype marked the country’s breakthrough into the exclusive club once made up only of the United States and Russia. And as far as womankind is concerned, there was another first. One of the three astronauts in the Shenzhou 9 capsule was 33-year-old Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space. Read More
