NASA to Launch Experiments of Indian Students

BANGALORE: Two experiments by eleven-year-old Indian student in the UAE, Prerna Pai, a seventh grader at Sharjah’s Delhi Private School, are among the experiments that will be fired into space on June 26.

An 11-year-old Indian student is the only participant from the UAE who has got her two experimental payloads for space approved by NASA through the space agency’s programme for budding young scientists.

Two experiments by Prerna Pai, a seventh grader at Sharjah’s Delhi Private School, are among the 100 selected experiments that will be fired into space by NASA on June 26, Gulf News reported.

Among those selected under the programme are seventy-five American students besides 25 students from the rest of the world.

Pai, an aspiring scientist, has been a regular participant in NASA student activities.

NASA had launched its Cubes in Space Programme in May and had invited students from around the world in the age group of 11–14 to devise experimental payloads for space.

“I had to think a lot when I learnt about this contest and sent them many proposals. My science teacher has always encouraged me to think out of the box and that inspired me. Once my ideas were selected, NASA sent me a kit into which I had to place my experiments and mail it to them. I was so thrilled by the news that I even dashed off a thank-you note to NASA,” Gulf News quoted Pai as saying.

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