China has big plans for
space with the first module of their
space station already in orbit above our head at this second.
Currently China’s staff of Astronauts is made of an all male group of candidates, but that could all change in
2012 with flights Shenzhou-9 and 10.
Director of Astronaut
Center of
China (ACC) states that they are currently in the process of deciding if they will send woman astronauts to
space and added they may have already have a couple of candidates lined up.
If the decision is made the first female
Chinese astronauts could make it in to
space in
2012 for the historic docking of Shenzhou 9 and 10 with
space lab module
Tiangong.