TMR students elated over visit to SHAR

Hyderabad: For grooming their astronomical talent and to inculcate scientific temper, 42 students of Telangana Minorities Residential Schools witnessed live the launch of second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

Following their visit and their arrival in city, they explained that watching live launch of Chadrayaan-2 was the life's best experience. "It's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, onboard its powerful rocket GSLV-MK III M-1 called as 'Bahubali'. It took off on time at 2:43 pm from the spaceport, an island in Andhra Pradesh," said Akif Ahmed, a class 9 student from Adilabad.

He also said that India's first moon mission orbited the Moon in 2008 and helped confirm the presence of water and it's a second mission, he added. "The rocket carried an orbiter, a lander and a rover and it is designed and made in India. The 2.4-tonne orbiter will circle the moon for about a year, taking images of the surface, looking for water and studying the atmosphere", said Sophia Begum, class 9, Mahboob Nagar.

"It will take around 48 days to travel to land on the moon and it will land on its surface on September 7-8," said Mohammed Sohail Khan, class 9, Kamareddy. Mohammed Abdul Lateef, Academic Head TMREIS (Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society), informed that TMREIS received invitation from ISRO to be part of launching Chandrayaan-2 mission.

For the lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, TMREIS has conducted the Astronomical test in which the 16,000 students of 204 TMREIS school took part. Amongst them, the top 400 students from state has been selected for the second screening test and 42 students were finally selected, who watched live of launch vehicle on Monday.

"For this great opportunity, these 42 students were in orientation classes to gain knowledge upon the launched of Chandrayaan-2 under Planetary Society of India. Director S Raghunandan Kumar, who teaches Astro physics classes to the students, gave them insights into the subject", said Lateef.

He also said that this has been done for the grooming of their astronomical talent and this kind of events proves motivational. Last year TMREIS students visited NASA and now TMREIS is striving hard to develop scientific temper in students by providing them opportunities to participate in national and international events. TMRIES also motivates the students for grooming to take Astro physics and Astronomy subjects in career.

Speaking to The Hans India Raghunandan Kumar said that these 42 students who were selected in Astro test are under his mentorship since February and he teaches and explains them the process of the vehicle launch. "For Chandrayaan-2 people across the country witnessing the event on their TVs. While students from Telangana, that too from a State run school were lucky enough to watch from the launch station. They are now capable of explaining all the details and specifications of launch of Chandrayaan-2", he added.