Women astronauts set to fly by 2010
By Zhao Huanxin (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-26 06:08

me NASA's first black woman astronaut in 1987, said she had full confidence in the talent of Chinese women, not only in terms of operating space vehicles, but also in terms of designing the vehicles and understanding how space research can be most beneficial.

Jeffrey B Greene, president of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, which hosted the US astronauts' China tour along with the Chinese Society of Astronautics, yesterday said he hoped Chinese and American crews would one day fly together in the same spacecraft for peaceful space exploration.

The astronauts' tour, lasting until August 3, was sponsored by the Du Pont China Co.

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