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Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission
Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will join the Shenzhou-23 mission to the Tiangong space station as a payload specialist. She is a police chief inspector and tech expert with a doctorate in computer science and will become the fourth female astronaut in the Chinese space station.
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