A Letter in reply to 1st astronaut teacher sent through space

Image scanned on June 20, 2013 shows the letter (L) 62-year-old Barbara Morgan, the first astronaut teacher and retired NASA astronaut, wrote to 33-year-old Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping on June 13 and Wang Yaping's letter (R) in reply after the space lecture delivered on June 20, 2013 by Chinese astronauts aboard China's space module Tiangong-1. (Xinhua)

The content of Wang Yaping's letter in reply is as follows: Dear Ms Barbara Morgan: My colleagues and I are delighted to receive your letter so far from Earth. Thank you for your care and good wishes for us. We also want to extend to you our admiration and respect for what you have done for manned space programs and for education as well. Today, we successfully delivered a lecture to millions of Chinese students, sharing with them the majesty and beauty of outer space, and the joy of learning new things. I hope you and all of the teachers and students elsewhere on Earth enjoyed the lecture. During our ongoing flight, I have frequently gazed upon our beautiful home Earth through the window of our space module. Space is where mankind places its most fantastic dreams while knowledge is the ladder to a better understanding of what exists beyond our Earth. We would like to join the efforts, as you have done, to bring science-loving youth around the world closer to their dreams of exploring the universe. Wang Yaping Chinese astronaut From Tiangong-1 June 20, 2013.