Chinese students wait for class from space

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- About 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school are eagerly waiting for their teacher to begin a class from the space on Thursday morning.

The special lecture will begin in a few minutes, given by female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, through a live video feed system.

The students are gathering at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University in Beijing. Before the class, they first watched a short film about the life of Chinese astronauts on board of Tiangong-1 orbiter, which docked with Shenzhou-10 on June 13.

More than 60 million students and teachers at about 80,000 middle schools across the country will also watch the live broadcast of the class on TV.

Wang will teach about motion in a microgravity environment, the surface tension of liquid, and help students understand the concepts of weight and mass and Newton's Laws.

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