Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission

Hong Kong will send its first astronaut to the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Saturday. Lai Ka-ying, a police superintendent with a doctorate in computer science, will join the Shenzhou-23 mission as a payload specialist and become the fourth woman astronaut to enter the Chinese space station. The Shenzhou-23 crewed spacecraft is targeting a launch at 11.08pm on Sunday. According to the agency, Lai will work alongside astronauts Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan..