14 January 2018
A People's Liberation Army's (PLA) newspaper on 14 January published an article by Liu Qianting, daughter of astronaut Liu Boming, on her father's flight on Shenzhou 7. Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang and Jing Haipeng took part in the Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, during which Zhai made the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. Liu Qianting said her father was selected for Shenzhou 7 in 2008 and started four months of intense training while she was preparing for her senior middle school entrance exam, but her father managed to make time to see her at school before the mission. "I will never forget the day of 25 September 2008, when the spacecraft blasted off, carrying my father, as well as my mother's heart and mine, into space," she said.
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