TAIKONAUTS have conducted a science lecture 400km above Earth to millions of students, as they orbited in the Tiangong space station.
Major-General Zhai Zhigang, Senior Colonel Wang Yaping and Senior Colonel Ye Guangfu, all members of the Shenzhou XIII mission crew, greeted students, teachers and other participants when the lecture started at 3.54pm on Thursday.
Ye, who is on his first spaceflight, showed how he rotated his body in the weightless environment. The astronauts also answered questions from students during the lecture. It was the first lecture of the Tiangong Class, or Heavenly Palace Class, China’s first extraterrestrial lecture series to popularise space science.
Shi Yi, deputy head of teaching and a physics teacher at the Beijing No 101 Middle School, said the space lecture was an eye-opening experience that would ignite students’ interest in science. “It also helped to enhance their sense of national identity as they saw the rapid development of our country’s space technology,” he said.
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