A spokesman for China's manned space program has announced that astronauts on board the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft will hold a class for students through a live video feed system while in orbit. That will be at about 10 Thursday morning Beijing time.

In China's first initiative of its kind, astronauts will be teaching to secondary and elementary school students. CCTV will be broadcasting it live. The astronauts will conduct basic physics experiments in the orbiting space lab module Tiangong-1, including showing the movement of objects and the surface tension of liquid in a zero-gravity environment.

Wang Yaping, the only female astronaut on board the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft, will teach Chinese primary and middle school students about Earth physics phenomena on the morning of the June 20.

The class teacher is China's second female astronaut Wang Yaping. Mission commander Nie Haisheng is assisting, and Zhang Xiaoguang is the cameraman.

In Beijing, a special classroom will be set up at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University. About 330 primary and secondary school students, including some from ethnic minorities, migrant worker families, or the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, have been invited to the venue to interact with the astronauts. About 60 million teachers and students at 80,000 schools nationwide will also be tuning in.

Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft was launched on June 11. The three astronauts are all in good and stable condition.

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