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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Monday, June 14, 2004 ::
Taikonette
Per Space Daily: China plans to send its first woman into orbit by 2010, but the country, which prides itself as an equal-opportunity society, does not plan to let her sit in the driver's seat, state media said Monday. No word in the story on which flight this might be. It almost certainly won't be next year's Shenzhou 6, and all the Chinese have announced (that I know of) about their future flight plans is that Shenzhou 7 will be flown before 2010. Which means that either they plan on flying a woman on their third flight, or they are planning on making more than two more flights before in the next 6 1/2 years (which one would hope they would). It's also worth noting, for a bit of context, that while cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space in 1963, flew her own spacecraft, the U.S. did not have a female pilot on the Shuttle until 1995, 12 years after Sally Ride made her first flight.