As a national space laboratory, China Space Station is also an important space science education base, which contains rich educational resources and has special advantages in encouraging the public, especially young people, to carry forward the scientific spirit and love the space industry.

The first lesson of "Tiangong Classroom"

At 202 1 and 15: 40 on February 9th, Beijing time, the first class of "Tiangong Classroom" officially started, and China astronauts gave another space lecture, which was also the first space teaching activity of China Space Station.

During the 60-minute lecture, the astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guang Fu of the Shenzhou-13 flight crew vividly introduced and displayed the working and living scenes of the space station, and demonstrated the magical phenomena such as cytology experiment, human movement and liquid surface tension in microgravity environment.

And explained the scientific principle behind the experiment. During the lecture, astronauts interacted with teachers and students in the ground class in real time through video call. [8]

At the same time, the crew of Shenzhou XIII can clearly see the children's every move in the classroom on the ground through the LCD screen in the space station, and can also have a "dialogue between heaven and earth" in real time.

This teaching activity is co-sponsored by China Manned Space Engineering Office, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, China Association for Science and Technology and CCTV, and supported by China Science and Technology Museum and related research and experimental units of manned space engineering. Follow up,

"Tiangong Classroom" will continue to carry out space teaching activities, actively spread manned space knowledge and culture, and continue to carry out various forms and rich contents of space science education.