If you are working on a space station orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, the woman set to become Hong Kong\u2019s first astronaut when the mission launches this weekend is exactly the kind of person you want by your side, according to the professor who supervised her postgraduate studies.<\/p>\n
Lai Ka-ying was meticulous, patient and a skilled communicator who could break down highly technical ideas for others, Chow Kam-pui, an honorary associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, told the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n
Lai, who holds a doctorate in computer science and is a police superintendent, is part of the Shenzhou-23 mission team set to blast-off on Sunday and dock with China\u2019s Tiangong space station.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old will serve as a payload specialist, and her years studying cryptography and digital forensics show that she possesses the intellect and skills to make her a valuable member of the team, according to Chow.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was extremely meticulous. She would follow through on every single detail as a student,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chow, from the university\u2019s school of computing and data science, guided Lai through her master\u2019s degree in cryptography and subsequent PhD in digital forensics from 2004 to 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are working on a space station orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, the woman set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[10525,42342,217085,217084,18,4202,19,17,217082,58129,52183,133,217083,217086,5258,19453,451,33372,21353],"class_list":["post-499252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-chief-executive-john-lee-ka-chiu","tag-china-manned-space-agency","tag-chinas-tiangong-space-station","tag-chow-kam-pui","tag-eire","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lai-ka-ying","tag-macau","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-science","tag-security-bureau","tag-shenzhou-23-mission","tag-south-africa","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-space","tag-space-station","tag-university-of-hong-kong"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116624680950208345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}