China is about to send the first female astronaut to work on its new space station | Analysis by Nectar_Gan & jessieyeung8
A version of this story appeared in CNN's Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here.Wang Yaping, 41, is part of a three-member team heading for the Tiangong -- or Heavenly Palace -- space station, where she is expected to become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk.
In 1983, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride became the first American women in space -- but back then, the male-dominated space industry appeared to be pretty clueless about women's needs.As Ride prepared for her trip on the Space Shuttle STS-7, NASA engineers famously asked her how many tampons she might need for a week in orbit."Is 100 the right number?" Ride recalled them asking, according to the transcript of a 2012 NASA oral history project.
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