China to Launch First Female Astronaut

China is preparing to launch its first female astronaut into space on Satursday. Liu Yang is a major in the People’s Liberation Army and has been in China’s the astronaut core for two years. Yang and her two colleagues; mission commander Jing Haipeng, 45, and Liu Wang, 43 — will take off at 6.37 pm (1037 GMT) in the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft from the Jiuquan  in northern China’s Gobi desert – Discovery News