China astronaut teaches lesson from space

A Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300 kilometers above the Earth’s surface delivered a video class to children across the country on June 20, state television showed in a live broadcast. Wearing a blue space suit, Wang Yaping, the second Chinese woman in space, demonstrated how a variety of objects – from a bubble of water to a spinning toy – behave in zero gravity. Wang’s class – delivered from China’s orbiting space module Tiangong-1 – was shown in classrooms across China, state broadcaster CCTV said. Using a live video link, Wang fired questions at students who gathered at a school in Beijing to watch the lesson on a giant screen. More than 60 million students and teachers were expected to watch the class.

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