The third lecture of "Tiangong Class," a series of educational sessions held by taikonauts at China's space station, will be held at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Tuesday.The lecture will be delivered by Shenzhou-14 astronauts – Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe. It will be livestreamed worldwide by the China Media Group.
The taikonauts will demonstrate several water-related phenomena in micro-gravity environment inside the space station, such as the capillary phenomenon, showing the change in surface tension.The three space teachers will also interact with students on Earth during the class, which is aimed at popularizing the knowledge of manned space flights and encouraging young people to develop an interest in science, the agency said in a statement.
Wednesday's class is the third from the Chinese space station. Part of the teaching content has been selected from the suggestions given by young people.
Taikonauts will also invite students to carry out related experiments on the ground, to perceive the differences between space and Earth, and discover the fun derived from such explorations, the agency said.
神舟十四号航天员乘组进驻空间站已经超过4个月,期间完成了两次出舱活动。
The Shenzhou-14 crew has spent over four months at the space station and conducted two space walks.
Propellant injection work on the Mengtian space lab, the second lab component of China's Tiangong space station, was conducted on Monday morning at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a news release that the lab module has undergone ground tests at the center and will undergo checks of its functions along with its carrier, a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket. Preparations for the launch mission scheduled for this month are underway at the center, it noted.
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