Wang, 34, is China’s only female spaceflight engineer, the agency said. She is the third Chinese woman to participate in a manned spaceflight mission, following Liu Yang, a crew member on Shenzhou 9 and 14, and Wang Yaping, who flew Shenzhou 10 and 13.
Lin told a news conference that Wang was a senior engineer at the Aerospace Propulsion Technology Academy under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. There, she designed a nuclear-powered rocket engine, according to papers seen by the South China Morning Post.
Song, 34, was also a former Air Force pilot before becoming an astronaut. They will be the youngest Chinese astronauts to go into space.
The Shenzhou-19 spacecraft will be mounted atop the Long March 2F carrier rocket and will lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China at 4:27 a.m. on Wednesday. He is expected to return in late April or early May.
Ren Fengjie, an official at the launch center’s meteorological bureau, told China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday that launch slots are determined based on weather forecasts and real-time weather data analysis for the launch site and its surrounding areas, and plans are planned to take advantage of that. said. The nighttime temperature at the launch site is low.
