Tiangong Class
How do astronauts live and work on a space station? You can get the answer from the Tiangong Class, a series of lectures from China's space station. In the Tiangong Class, Chinese astronauts will become the "teachers in space". Months ago, three Shenzhou-13 astronauts, Wang Yaping, Ye Guangfu and Zhai Zhigang, gave their first class. Thousands of young students took the class.
Wang Yaping and the other two astronauts first gave the students a tour around. They showed students how to live and work on the space station. After the tour, the astronauts did some interesting experiments. In one experiment, Wang made a small water film and put a pink folded paper flower on it. Soon the flower blossomed. "I made the flower with my daughter while on the earth and I always think of her when I see the flower," said Wang. "Students, all of you are flowers of the motherland. I hope your dreams can blossom like flowers."
During the class, the students learned how different space is from the earth. Many students showed great interest in space and science. Wang Yihan, a fifth-grade student, said, "It was an eye-opening experience. The experiments really surprised me. They were wonderful! I want to be an astronaut too!"
