Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino interacted with college students of PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya in New Delhi on Thursday, sharing insights into house exploration and India’s rising position in world house missions.
Throughout his go to, Massimino explored the varsity’s superior services, together with the AR-VR Lab, Atal Tinkering Lab, and the language lab. Participating with college students, he praised India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, highlighting its significance in lunar exploration and its contributions to understanding potential water sources on the Moon’s South Pole—crucial for future habitation.
“The Chandrayaan mission was superb. India has lots to supply. Many Indian college students within the US are exceptionally sensible and hardworking,” he stated, emphasizing the significance of worldwide collaboration in house analysis.
Massimino additionally shared his private journey to changing into an astronaut, revealing {that a} movie about seven astronauts had impressed his profession path. He answered college students’ questions on house journey, describing life in zero gravity, astronaut diets, and the technological developments shaping house missions. When requested about synthetic intelligence (AI) in house exploration, he defined that AI would improve effectivity, scale back prices, and enhance security in future missions.
Discussing human colonization past Earth, Massimino famous that whereas a Moon base might develop into a actuality within the close to future, selecting Mars stays a distant objective on account of technological hurdles.
The session left college students impressed as Massimino suggested them on the important thing topics and abilities required for a profession in house science, stressing the significance of disciplines corresponding to soil sciences and marine biology. He additionally mirrored on his most difficult initiatives at NASA, together with spacewalking missions for the Hubble Area Telescope.
Mike Massimino, a veteran of two house shuttle missions, holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT) and has been acknowledged with a number of NASA honors, together with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. He was additionally the primary particular person to tweet from house.
The occasion was attended by a number of dignitaries, together with Joint Commissioner (Pers) Somit Shrivastava, Deputy Commissioner (Lecturers) BK Behra, and different officers from the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.
(Inputs from ANI)
