Liu Yang (astronaut)
Liu was selected for the crew of Shenzhou 9, the first manned mission to the Chinese space station Tiangong 1, along with Jing Haipeng, the first repeat Chinese space traveller, and Liu Wang. Liu became the first female Chinese astronaut to go into space. The mission was launched on June 16, 2012, 49 years to the day after the first female space traveller, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched. During this manned space mission, Liu performed experiments in space medicine.
CoCo Brown
Brown is scheduled to go on a trip to outer space in 2016, which will last approximately one hour. The flight will be arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a Netherlands-based space tourism company. This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a concierge she knew after another person canceled their appearance at the event. She began training for the flight, with help from XCOR Aerospace, that same year. In preparation for the trip, she had to earn a pilot's license. She will be the flight's co-pilot. If the trip takes place as planned, it would make her the first pornographic actress in space as well as the fourth African American woman, after Mae Jemison, Stephanie Wilson, and Joan Higginbotham.