This Article is From May 04, 2012

Tamil Nadu schoolchildren visit NASA facility

Salem: It was literally a journey through space and time for 31 boys and 19 girls of a school at Tiruchengode, who visited National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility in USA as a part of a 53 member team.

The students of Vidyaa Vikas Educational Institutional Trust, speaking at a felicitation function at their school, said they had stayed for three days at the NASA Space research after arriving there on April 11 on a 14 day trip.

They learnt about rocket technology, rocket launching techniques, satellite technology and its functions in orbit.

The children also had an opportunity to interact with astronauts and were given certificates by NASA at the end of the tour.

The students said that their visit had kindled a desire in them to pursue research for discovering something new and to make the country proud. Some also harboured a desire of going to the moon.

The managing trustee of the school said the mission of this expedition was to help children develop a scientific bent of mind, develop an analytical attitude and encouraging one's potential to invent new things.
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