China’s First Female Astronaut Does Tai Chi In Space [VIDEO]

Liu Yang, China’s first-ever female astronaut, had a night shift on Shenzhou 9 a couple of days ago – which is apparently sort of dull in space too, because she entertained herself by going through some Tai Chi exercises. In space. And since the spacecraft returned to earth today, we get to see what that looks like.

The Shenzhou 9 mission, on top of putting China’s first woman in space, was there to run a manual docking procedure crucial to China’s plans to construct a space station around 2020. And also they can do kung fu in space now.

[Source: CNET]

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