A manned Shenzhou spacecraft will be used to transport crewmembers to and from the space station.
While in orbit, Nyberg was one of only two women in space on the 50th anniversary on June 16th 2013 of Vostok 6, the first spaceshot by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova, the other being Wang Yaping aboard the Tiangong-1 on the Shenzhou 10 mission.