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Saturday, June 16, 2012

China launches its first woman into space

In this image made off the monitor screen at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's astronauts Jing Haipeng, center, Liu Wang, left, and Liu Yang sit inside the capsule after the launch of China's manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft Saturday, June 16, 2012. Shenzhou-9, atop an upgraded Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China at 6:37 p.m. Saturday and accurately entered its orbit, Xinhua said.