Sunday, May 26, 2013, 4.30 AM
CHINA'S FIRST FEMALE ASTRONAUT
A shop owner watches television in his store in Shanghai as China's first female astronaut Liu Yang is shown getting out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after returning to earth on June 29, 2012. Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after achieving China's most complex and longest operations in orbit, major steps forward in the country's effort to build a space station by 2020. -- AFP Photo/ Peter Parks
A shop owner watches television in his store in Shanghai as China's first female astronaut Liu Yang is shown getting out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after returning to earth on June 29, 2012. Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after achieving China's most complex and longest operations in orbit, major steps forward in the country's effort to build a space station by 2020. -- AFP Photo/ Peter Parks
