BEIJING: A Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300km above the Earth’s surface delivered a video class to children across the country yesterday, 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.
The astronaut smiled as she pushed a fellow astronaut into the wall of the module with the merest touch of her finger, and went on to gulp down a drop of water as it floated in mid air.
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.
The astronauts on board went to space with specially prepared bags of lemon tea, and work out on exercise bikes, a video shown before the lesson revealed. AFP
