Video: China astronaut gulps water, mesmerises pupils from space

A Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300 kilometres above the earth’s surface delivered a video class to children across the country on Thursday, state television showed in a live broadcast.

Wearing a blue space suit, Wang Yaping, the second Chinese woman in space, demonstrated how a variety of objects – from a bubble of water to a spinning toy – behave in zero gravity.

Wang’s class – delivered from China’s orbiting space module Tiangong-1 – was shown in classrooms across China, state broadcaster CCTV said.

The astronaut smiled as she pushed a fellow astronaut into the wall of the module with the merest touch of her finger, and went on to gulp down a drop of water as it floated in mid air.