How would you like to live in space someday? Some people already do--on a space station. The station circles the Earth 2230 miles above us. It moves around our planet at over 17,000 miles per hour.

Astronauts from different countries have called the space station home since the year 2000. Groups of three people take turns living on the station. They travel between their space home and the Earth on the space shuttle(航天飞机). What's it like to live on the space station? “It's like taking a four-month camping trip--in space!" says John Charles, a NASA scientist. The members of the station crew (工作人员) eat dried food, bathe with wet cloths and sleep in sleeping bags. They have to tie the sleeping bags to a wall before they sleep. If they don't do that, they will float(漂浮)around all night.

The weightlessness (失重) of space can be fun. The crew members like to jump up and down.

They also like to play catch in slow motion.

There's work to be done, too. The space station is a busy place. The station's crew members do science experiments. They also spend a lot of their time adding new parts to the station. The space shuttle brings the parts. The astronauts sometimes make space walks outside the station to connect the new parts. Building a house can take less than a year. Building the space station will take at least eight years!

There is an unusual coffee shop in Shanghai. It is the first coffee shop that runs by blind people in China. Twin brothers Yin Tianbao and Yin Tianyou serve as baristas (咖啡师) there. Tianbao is also the manager of the shop.

The brothers were born blind, but it has never stopped them from enjoying their life. They like playing football and they are skilled skate boarders and marathon runners. Their latest effort to challenge themselves is running the coffee shop.

Tianbao began learning to make coffee in late 2021. It was no easy task for him. He practiced making over 100 cups of coffee every day. “There is no other way but to practice over and over again,” Tianbao said. Latte art was the most challenging part for him. “The milk foam (泡沫) is so light that it’s hard for me to know whether the coffee cup is almost full by the sound. What I can do is try by feeling slowly,” he said.

Tianbao’s hard work has paid off. Now he can make a great cup of coffee in two minutes. “Making coffee makes me full of hope for the future. If I can succeed in this, maybe I can succeed in many other things,” Tianbao said. It also encouraged his brother Tianyou to follow in his footsteps and become a barista.

The shop is specially designed (设计) to meet the brothers’ needs. It uses different materials in different work areas. For example, wood is used at the checkout and steel in the cleaning area. The coffee machine has buttons (按钮) in different shapes to help the brothers make different kinds of coffee. From overcoming physical challenges to running a coffee shop, the brothers are trying to make the impossible possible.

This summer vacation, 14-year-old Wen Jiayi made a good friend. He is not a person, but a giant panda! His name is Jingke. We spent three days with him, learning how he ate, slept and played.