| Female space trainees in Chinas space program |
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Women, aged 17 to 20, will train as pilots at the Chinese's military's Aviation University, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing a school official. "Some of them will be picked out and trained for future space voyages," said an official.
China launched its first manned space flight in October 2003 and says it plans to launch a pair of astronauts into orbit later this year. The government said earlier that its first female astronaut was expected to be a researcher on a planned space station.
The female trainees were picked after officials considered more than 200,000 young Chinese women, the official said. "Those newly recruited female students ... have not only achieved the best grades during the selection exams, but also behaved fairly well in the mental tests"
Hundreds of Chinese women have flown for China's air force and civilian airlines. The United States and Russia are the only other countries that have sent manned spacecraft into orbit, and both have sent women into space.
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