According to Xinhua Net on June 13^th, 2013, the first astronaut teacher Barbara Morgan wrote a letter to Wang Yaping, the astronaut on China's Shenzhou X spacecraft. Barbara Morgan was the world's first astronaut who ever taught in space. Barbara expressed her wishes to Wang Yaping on behalf of teachers and students around the world. She told Yaping in the letter: "Please remember to take time to look out the window."

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"I wrote down the letter and want to share it with Wang Yaping and all Chinese people." Morgan told reporter via email. It said on the letter:

Dear Wang Yaping:

On behalf of teachers and students around the world, I send you greetings of honor and love as you orbit out Earth and prepare to teach your lessons from space. We are proud of you. We wish you and your crewmate's safety and success. You will be very busy up there, but please remember to take time to look out the window. China and all of this world are beautiful.

Sincerely yours,                                                                                
Barbara Morgan

Morgan said via email: "I am really very excited about Wang Yaping's first space lesson, I share the pride and joy with you!"

Looking forward to watching Wang's lessons from space, Morgan said: "The students and teachers are eagerly waiting and I am too. Education is so important and space exploration is so important and I hope these are all going to be broadcast on the Internet, so that all of those on the ground in the world can watch," she added. "I am delighted about astronaut Wang Yaping and her crewmates in the Shenzhou X mission and I'm especially excited about Wang's upcoming, and China's very first lessons taught from space."

"It's always more challenging when you don't have your students in the same room with you, but luckily we have wonderful technology," Morgan said. "I know she is going to do a wonderful job."

Morgan conducted her first lesson in space in 2007 from the International Space Station. She showed students how to exercise and drink water in space via a video.