Who is Wang Haoze? Little-known personal facts about China’s only woman space flight engineer

On October 30, China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station to carry out the sixth-month Shenzhou 19 mission.

Among the youngest of the crew is China’s third female astronaut and first-ever woman space flight engineer, Wang Haoze.

Unlike her two predecessors Liu Yang and Wang Yaping, who were both trained as aircraft pilots, 34-year-old Wang has an education background in energy and power engineering at the Southeast University in Nanjing, eastern China’s Jiangsu province.

She graduated from undergraduate school with a top grade and continued to study plasma detonation at the same university for her master’s degree.

After graduating in 2015, Wang joined the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to do rocket engine research. She was selected as an astronaut in 2020.