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September 21st, 2023
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China’s Tiangong space station turned into a lecture hall as more than 2,400 students and teachers from university and primary and middle schools attended live-streaming talks from the orbiting outpost.
Shenzhou-16 mission commander Major General Jing Haipeng, spaceflight engineer Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and the mission’s science payload specialist Professor Gui Haichao greeted the students.
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This was the first science lecture delivered from the Mengtian lab module – one element of the three-module space facility.
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“The Mengtian lab module is equipped with the most scientific experiment equipment in the Tiangong space station, and can accommodate 13 experiment cabinets. We can conduct automatic entry and exit of payloads here,” said Gui, China’s first civilian astronaut.
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Students joined the lectures from Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Anhui and Zhejiang, with five classrooms involved in the events.
Earlier, both the Shenzhou-13 and Shenzhou-14 crews conducted their own “Tiangong Class” lectures.
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