New Delhi: A research project presented by four students from Rourkela has won the second prize in the “Space Settlement Design Contest” conducted by the NASA Research Centre in the US.
But their hopes to study outer space may be grounded - if they cannot find sponsors to send them to the US.
For Ullhas, Amitav, Asim and Soumya the sky is not the limit. These class 12th students of Ispat English Medium School in Rourkela worked on a project that got them the prize.
With help from their teacher B B Mathur, the team presented a 131-page thesis called “Extra terrestrial Domain for Eternity by Nations or EDEN”. They won the prize among 200 contestants from 96 countries.
Ullhas says, “According to our project initially ten thousand people can live in space with the help of Torus technology by which there can be orbiting space colony."
NASA has invited the four students for a ten-day visit to their space centre in June.
But the team may not be able to make the trip. They need at least Rs five lakh for the visit, and they haven’t got sponsors yet.
Mathur says, “We have approached Rourkela steel plant. We are waiting for the response.”
The four students want to become space scientists and no prize for guessing, Kalpana Chawla is their role model. It will be a pity if the team can’t make it to this expedition.
With inputs from Anumeha Chaturvedi
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