China's first woman astronaut reverses spaceship into asteroid

CHINA'S first female astronaut has crashed her spaceship into an asteroid while attempting a basic reverse parking manoeuvre this morning.

Liu Yang pranged the Shenzhou-9 craft into a 360,000-tonne lump of rock while trying to pull over to go for a wee.

China's space agency says Liu was put off by male astronauts in passing spaceships scrutinising her parking skills and making disparaging comments. Shenzhou-9 blasted off from the Gobi desert on Saturday, to further China's attempts to build its own space station.

But it has already travelled 4,000 light years in the wrong direction, because women can't read maps.