China’s astronauts talk to US students

A group of US students was given a glimpse into the lives and work of Chinese astronauts on April 9.

Floating hundreds of kilometers above the Earth in an orbiting space station, three Chinese astronauts, along with former NASA astronauts and aerospace experts on the ground, answered questions from US students.

There was a lot of curiosity about the Chinese space station and astronauts’ experiments in space, so the Chinese embassy decided to put together a Q&A session with the Chinese astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, said Qin Gang, China’s ambassador to the US.

The three Chinese astronauts on the Tiangong space station prerecorded responses to questions from more than 300 students from 20 schools.

The students, parents and teachers joined the event either in person at the Chinese embassy in Washington or through teleconferencing.