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China’s women astronauts

China has picked its first group of women to be trained as astronauts. The 35 women, aged between 17 and 20, will first train as pilots at the Chinese military’s Aviation University. Some will then be picked for space missions, and China’s first female is due to be launched into space by 2010. The short listed women were picked from more than 200,000 hopefuls.

Valentina Tereshkova, from the USSR, became the first female in space in 1963, and Sally Ride was the first American, in 1983.

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