While most of us adults keep staring at the moon wondering at the depth of our existence, one 18 year old boy from India has won a NASA ‘Moon’ prize for his remarkable project proposal of a human settlement on the moon.
In India while thousands of students are sweating it out in board exams, 18 year old Sai Kiran from Hyderabad, Telengana, India has achieved the unthinkable. From thousands of entries around the globe, this young lad has secured second place in the NASA Ames Space settlement Contest for 2017.
1 Sai Kiran began working on his project in March 2013
Sai Kiran entered the grade 12 category of the contest and began working on his incredible project while living in Singapore way back in 2013. The agenda of the contest was to invite kids to propose ideas of a human settlement on the moon.
The contest Conducted by NASA Ames Research Center, San Jose State University, and the National Space Society (NSS) included entries from kids up to the 12th grade.
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2 Brilliant proposals for a human settlement on the moon
Sai Kiran finalized his thesis last year in March. Titled ‘’Connecting Moon-Earth-Space, and Humeiu Space Habitats’’, it proposed a means for humans to settle on the moon based on what Sai Kiran says is called Centripetal acceleration.
Speaking in an interview Sai Kiran said "The first segment of the project is about creating elevators that could transport humans and cargo to the Moon so that humans can form their settlements there”.
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