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Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission
South China Morning Post

Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission

Hong 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. The Shenzhou-23 crewed spacecraft is targeting a launch at 23:08 tomorrow. According to the agency, she will work alongside two astronauts Zhu...

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