NASA trip fires students’ ambition

May 06, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:39 am IST - COIMBATORE:

Students of PSBB Millennium School, Coimbatore, who returned after a visit to NASA.- Photo: M. Periasamy

Students of PSBB Millennium School, Coimbatore, who returned after a visit to NASA.- Photo: M. Periasamy

For Lakshman S. Vijay, a Class IX student of the PSBB Millennium School, the trip to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was a dream come true. “It is something that I’ve been waiting for.”

He met astronauts and got a few doubts cleared. He was one among the 36 students from the school who went to NASA, the Kennedy Space Centre and a few other places. For Ananka Shreya Ashwin, his classmate, the trip was an eye opener in the sense that she got to see and understand how basic concepts in science were being put to use at NASA.

“The scientists use Newton’s Third Law of Motion and other basic principles to even move the space craft/rocket to the launch station.”

The students also got to experience how astronauts would feel inside the space craft when they would travel to space and see how the astronauts were trained inside NASA. The teachers who accompanied the students say it was an education tour with added entertainment.

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