Hong Kong\u2019s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will deliver a live lesson from space to students and teachers at her alma mater on Wednesday morning, with the 90-minute event broadcast to campuses across the city and streamed live on television.<\/p>\n
Lai and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members \u2013 mission commander Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan \u2013 will take part in the \u201cTiangong Class\u201d at Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College.<\/p>\n
Representatives from the youth sector and innovation and technology community, as well as a visiting delegation from Macau, will also attend. The session will also be broadcast to students in Macau.<\/p>\n
WATCH: Hong Kong\u2019s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying gives live lecture from space<\/p>\n
Jointly organised by the Hong Kong and Macau governments and the China Manned Space Agency, the event will feature an expert lecture, in-orbit demonstrations and a question and answer session designed to showcase the space environment.<\/p>\n
Astronaut alumna inspires young minds<\/p>\n
Form Five student Chan King-lam, who studies physics, chemistry, biology and extended mathematics, said the dialogue inspired him to explore science and he hoped to one day join the country\u2019s research ranks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow Lai sacrificed family time for this career really earns our respect and makes me want to refine my science studies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chan said he was awed to see textbook physics principles demonstrated in microgravity during the broadcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat impressed me most was watching them cook chicken wings and cakes. It really shows how difficult preparing fresh food is in space,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Form Six student Chan Tsz-ki said she was proud to see an alumna of her school become an astronaut and would take her as a role model in pursuing science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will deliver a live lesson from space to students and teachers at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2102,14914,200521,262748,240,61,60,15103,262749,200519,35904,82,200520,128800,247,239186,262747,7135,262750],"class_list":["post-619145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-beijing","tag-china-manned-space-agency","tag-chow-kam-pui","tag-government-house","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-lee-ka-chiu","tag-lai-ka-man","tag-lai-ka-ying","tag-macau","tag-science","tag-security-bureau","tag-shenzhou-23","tag-space","tag-tsuen-wan","tag-tsuen-wan-public-ho-chuen-yiu-memorial-college","tag-university-of-hong-kong","tag-wentian-laboratory-module"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}