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NASA space camps to find astronauts for Mars journey
NASA is organising space camps for the young would-be astronauts this summer and the best ones may join the US space missions, including Mars. Thousands of children will gather at the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) in Florida and the US Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, to learn what it takes to be an astronaut for deeper space missions, the Guardian reported.
Washington: NASA is organising space camps for the young would-be astronauts this summer and the best ones may join the US space missions, including Mars. Thousands of children will gather at the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) in Florida and the US Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, to learn what it takes to be an astronaut for deeper space missions, the Guardian reported.
The kids will have first-hand experience of constructing and launching model rockets made of paper tubes and PVC pipes and experiencing the pull of a microgravity simulator. They will also be taught to plan and execute a mission on board a full-size space shuttle mock-up.
"Each activity is planned to bring out team-building and problem-solving skills among children. It is about allowing their natural curiosity to run its course and sowing the seeds that might eventually lead them into space," the US space agency said. "I'm going to be a computer engineer, helping to launch rockets to go deeper into space," 11-year-old Colin Cox was quoted as saying.
The Space Launch System (SLS) from NASA will be the largest rocket ever built, with the aim of a manned mission to Mars by the 2030s. Its first unmanned test flight is set for no later than November 2018.
