Liu Yang, First Astronaut Female China

DOMINATION men slowly began to shift. No longer a reflection of women as domestic workers or simply as an administrative officer, correspondence, recording meetings, make agendas or corporate financial reporting.

Gender issue today is no longer a big wall for women to penetrate the male portion.

Moreover, with advances in technology make women much more able to engage in the development of technologies that already exist and fill in all fields of life, to change the world history.

That was proved by Liu Yang. Women from China are worthy of the epithet 'strong woman'. Its action in the world of technology, managed to make his eyes widened made.

Women who are fluent in speaking and hobbies are cooking, toss nervous breakdown just to conquer the world, struggling with the men to record a new history of the world's space.

Liu Yang who is determined to put women equal with men, and no longer backward, through the capsule Shenzhou-9, bringing Liu along with a second astronaut, Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang, docking mission (anchored) to the orbit module Tiangong-1.

Liu, now a media spotlight, because he was the first Chinese woman to travel into space. The 33-year-old woman was doing a medical experiment aerospace (space). Then, other tests during the 13 day mission.

Reported by Xinhuanet on Monday (6/18/2012), we are told, Liu who is a pilot, when it was watching the news on television about the first manned space mission of China in 2003. He asked how the views of the earth through space?

Nine months later, Liu had a chance to find himself as the first female astronaut from China. He was elected as one of the crew along with other male astronauts for manned space flight mission, Shenzhou-9.

"I am grateful to the homeland (where he was born) and the community. I am honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of Chinese women," he said.

He has full confidence that there are many female astronauts who have come out the sky. "Men and women have their advantages and their ability in carrying out space missions. They can complement each other and complete their mission well," he said.

A native of Henan province in China, has started looking at the sky since high school, when one of his teachers convinced him to enroll in flight school. Later, he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in 1997.

Flying record
Liu became a veteran pilot who has logged over 1680 hours of flight record. Then, he was promoted to deputy chief of the PLA before the flight unit was recruited as an astronaut candidate in May 2010.

After two years of training, Liu astronautic forged to have the ability and the ability to adapt to the environment of outer space. Liu excels in tests and has been elected in March this year became part of the Shenzhou-9 crew.

"When I became a pilot, I fly in the sky. Now, now I become an astronaut, I would fly into space. This flight will be much higher and farther," said Liu.

Amid the hustle and bustle, the difficulty and intensity of exercise that came daily. Liu is known as a skilled chef. In addition, like reading, especially novels, essays and book history.

"I love children and I love life," said Liu who lives in Beijing with her husband. "To be with my family is one part of happiness, but for the affairs of 'flying' is another type of person generally can not be natural," he concluded.

From wikipedia, the first female astronaut who drove into space was Valentina Tereshkova Russian nationals in June 1963, boarded the spacecraft Vostok 6. While the first American woman astronaut Sally Ride is, to ride the space shuttle Chalenger on June 18, 1983

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