China is sending its first woman into space today.<br /><br />Fighter pilot Liu Yang, 33, will join two other<br />astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft when it lifts off from the Gobi Desert.<br /><br />It is set to dock with the Tiangong 1 module as China prepares to put a permanent space station in orbit within the decade.<br />http://www.euronews.net/
