China's first female astronaut, 33-year-old Liu Yang (C), gets carried by two retrieval crew members after she emerged from the charred returned capsule of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, which means "divine vessel" in Chinese, in a remote area of northern China on June 29, 2012, after a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station. Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after achieving China's most complex and longest operations in orbit, major steps forward in the country's effort to build a space station by 2020. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)

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