Two Women Among New Chinese Astronauts
By Frank Morring, Jr.
China could send its first female astronaut into space in as little as two years, after including two women among its new class of seven military pilots selected for spaceflight training.
The women — both military transport pilots selected from among 15 female candidates — will join five male fighter pilots for two to three years of training in the Shenzhou spacecraft that already has taken six of their countrymen ...
