By: Lakshmy Pranesh
MUMBAI: More than 50,000 schoolchildren thronged NES International Mumbai-IB World
School
,
Mulund
, during a two-day
space exhibition
.
The space exhibition, organized in collaboration with ISRO, marked the centenary of Vikram Sarabhai, also known as the 'Father of India's Space Programme'. Speaking at the inaugural session on Monday, A P Jayaraman, nuclear scientist BARC, recalled, "In 1970, Sarabhai asked me to display India's rocket, Rohini 75, at a space research expo in Osaka, Japan... At that time, USSR and USA had displayed their finest achievements in space science. But for India, it was just the beginning; years later we are almost on a par with both nations."
Jayant Joshi, scientist, engineer and associate project director, GSAT; Satish Rao, space scientist; Shrikant Patil, scientific officer; Jitendra Kharde, junior engineer from space application centre (ISRO), and R Varadarajan, founder-principal of the school, were present at the event. Over 16 sections covering ISRO activities were on display, including launch vehicles PSLV and GSLV, Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan.
Varadarajan said: "We are the first IB school to introduce earth and space science in the curriculum and have designed a syllabus with the help of ISRO scientists. In collaboration with a UK space school, we will be starting NES Space School in India."
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