Hong Kong astronaut inspires pupils across city’s school halls in historic live lecture

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Cheung, K., & Lin, E. (2026, September 9). Hong Kong astronaut inspires pupils across city’s school halls in historic live lecture. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3366936/hong-kong-astronaut-inspires-pupils-across-citys-school-halls-historic-live-lecture?utm_source=rss_feed

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Hong Kong astronaut Lai Ka-ying led a live lecture from the Tiangong space station for her alma mater's students and others across Hong Kong and Macau on Wednesday. The 90-minute session was streamed to multiple campuses, including Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College, where Lai discussed her life in orbit and experiments conducted by her team. During a question-and-answer session, Lai encouraged students to pursue maths and science with enthusiasm and resilience. Lai was accompanied by crewmates Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan in the "Tiangong class" event organized by the Hong Kong and Macau governments and the China Manned Space Agency.
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Hong Kong's first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, conducted a historic live lecture from the Tiangong space station to students across Hong Kong and Macau. The event was broadcast at multiple schools, including Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College, where Lai Ka-ying is an alumnus. During the lecture, she demonstrated how chicken wings are cooked in zero gravity and showed the students the city's lights from space. The livecast also included a question-and-answer session, where Lai encouraged students to focus on building a strong foundation in math and science, saying they should "keep pushing and never fear hardships." This was a rare opportunity for Hong Kong students to learn directly from an astronaut and experience life in space.

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City Hong Kong Hong Kong’s Macau Tiangong

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Macau GPE · 5× Hong Kong GPE · 4× Lai PERSON · 2× Lai Ka- PERSON · 2× Tiangong GPE · 2× City ORG · 1× Hong Kong’s GPE · 1× Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College ORG · 1× Zhang Zhiyuan PERSON · 1× Zhu Yangzhu PERSON · 1×

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Hong Kong astronaut inspires pupils across city’s school halls in historic live lecture City’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and crewmates offer glimpse into their lives and experiments in space, inspiring youngsters in Hong Kong and Macau Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying has conducted a live lesson for students of her alma mater from the Tiangong space station, showing them how chicken wings are cooked in zero gravity and how she locates the city’s lights from the darkness of space.
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2026-09-09 · South China Morning Post
Hong Kong astronaut inspires pupils across city’s school halls in historic live lecture · assertive framing

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Hong Kong astronaut inspires pupils across city’s school halls in historic live lecture City’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and crewmates offer glimpse into their lives and experiments in space, inspiring youngsters in Hong Kong and Macau Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying has conducted a live lesson for students of her alma mater from the Tiangong space station, showing them how chicken wings are cooked in zero gravity and how she locates the city’s lights from the darkness of space. asserted
she → inspire → space
In a livecast to teachers and students of Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College on Wednesday that was also streamed at other campuses across Hong Kong and Macau, Lai offered a glimpse of life in orbit and the experiments her team conducted. asserted
team → stream → orbit
She also encouraged students during a question-and-answer session to build a solid foundation in maths and science, telling them to “keep pushing and never fear hardships”. asserted
She → encourage → hardships
“My education background, research and development experience, and my career have laid critical foundations for me to seize this opportunity. asserted
me → lay → opportunity
I hope students can constantly equip themselves and be brave and proactive as opportunities come along,” she said. asserted
she → hope → themselves
Lai and her crewmates, mission commander Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan, joined the “Tiangong class” at the school, jointly organised by the Hong Kong and Macau governments and the China Manned Space Agency. asserted
Lai → join → governments
The 90-minute session was streamed on campuses across the city, broadcast on television and aired to students in Macau, with youth, and innovation and technology representatives and a visiting Macau delegation also in attendance. asserted
session → stream → attendance
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