Source: China – South China Morning PostHong Kong will send its first astronaut to the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Saturday.
Lai Ka-ying, a police chief inspector and tech expert with a doctorate in computer science, will join the Shenzhou-23 mission as a payload specialist. She will become the fourth female astronaut to enter the Chinese space station.
According to the agency, she will work alongside two astronauts Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan. Zhu, the mission commander, previously served on…Read More