According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, China is about to start space classes again, and astronaut Wang Yaping will "change careers" as a teacher again.
Our country is about to launch space teaching
Space lectures are a unique way of popularizing science, containing unique and rich educational resources, which can not only cultivate the public to carry forward the spirit of science and love the aerospace industry, but also stimulate national pride and self-confidence.
Although space lectures are the product of modern high technology, they appeared in the 1980s. At that time, the United States proposed the "Teacher in Space" program, and President Reagan announced that one teacher from the country's primary and secondary school teachers would be selected to teach in space.
On January 28, 196, the first space teacher McAuliffe and 6 other astronauts took off on the "Challenger" space shuttle, unfortunately the space shuttle exploded, and 7 members of the plane were destroyed, becoming the biggest tragedy in the history of human spaceflight.
Challenger crash
In honor of this great teacher, when people talk about the first space teacher, people often think of Mr. McAuliffe, who was in fact the first teacher to fly into space.
The first truly meaningful space lesson in human history was in 2007, when female teacher Barbara Morgan successfully entered the International Space Station on a space shuttle, and she gave a 25-minute video interactive lesson to children on Earth.
The first space lessons were very curious, asking a variety of questions, from simple space common sense, to global warming, to the "night view" outside the window of the International Space Station, and the students let Morgan demonstrate how to drink water in space.
Look at the Earth from the space station
Interestingly, Barbara Morgan and McAuliffe were actually selected for the "Teacher in Space" program, when Barbara Morgan, as McAuliff's backup, witnessed the Space Shuttle Challenger accident on the ground.
On June 20, 2013, astronaut Wang Yaping conducted the first space lecture with the assistance of Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang, when more than 60 million primary and secondary school students across the country watched live.
Wang Yaping's first space lecture conducted a total of 4 experiments, namely:
Wang Yaping taught space for the first time
Experiment one: Space mass testing, weighing Nie Haisheng, yielded 74 kilograms, the same as the earth.
Experiment two: a pendulum movement, so that the ball around the axis of the bracket to do a circular motion.
Experiment Three: The gyroscope moves, and the gyroscope flies forward along a fixed axis.
Experiment four: make water film and water balloon, the water in space will become a spherical state, and finally Wang Yaping injects red liquid into the water balloon, and the water balloon becomes a beautiful "ruby".
Wang Yaping space lecture live
Wang Yaping's first space lecture was conducted on Tiangong-1, and as China's first space laboratory, the conditions of Tiangong-1 were relatively limited.
After the Shenzhou 13 astronauts entered the space station complex, China officially has the first space station, according to the plan, will be combined with manned missions, launched the "Tiangong Classroom" series of courses, live broadcast to the world.
The main purpose of space teaching is to stimulate the majority of primary and secondary school students to yearn for the boundless universe, enthusiasm for learning scientific and technological knowledge, and to plug the wings of dreams for children, so the significance of space teaching is very important.
Wang Yaping on the space station
This space lesson will include an interactive question session, when the astronauts will answer the selected questions, if your questions are creative enough, it is likely to be selected!
Did you listen to Teacher Wang's lecture 8 years ago? If not, hurry up and get your little bench ready, listen to a lesson from outside of space, and be a good student who is eager to learn!