Beijing: Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman who does space as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station.
Astronot Zhai Zhigang’s colleague left the main station module on Sunday night and Wang followed later.
They installed equipment and tested next to the robot station service arm, according to China Manned Space Agency.
Spacewalk lasts until early Monday.
The third member of the crew, Ye Guangfu, assisted from within the station, CMS said on his website.
Wang, 41, and Zhai, 55, have traveled to the Chinese Experimental Space Station who are now retired, and Zhai did China’s first spacewalk 13 years ago.
The three are the second crew at the permanent station, and the mission that began with their arrival October 16 is scheduled to be a long-term expanse in space yet for Chinese astronauts.
The Tianhe module from the station will be connected next year into two more parts named Tintian and Wentian.
The finished station will weigh around 66 tons, much smaller than the international space station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighed around 450 tons.
Three spaceshives are planned to install equipment in preparation for station expansion, while the crew will also assess the condition of life in the Tianhe module and conduct experiments in the spaces and other fields.
The Chinese military space program plans to send many crews to the station for the next two years to make it fully functional.
Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman who walked in space in 1984.
Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to do it at the end of the same year.
In 2019, Astronaut NASA Jessica Meir and Christina Koch participated in the first women’s first space to replace the damaged power control unit outside the International Space Station.
Walking lasts more than seven hours.
Astronauts do the first spacewalk by Chinese women
