{"id":16383,"date":"2017-04-03T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=16383"},"modified":"2017-04-03T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:21:36","slug":"chennai-boy-sai-kiran-p-wins-nasa-ames-space-settlement-contest-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/chennai-boy-sai-kiran-p-wins-nasa-ames-space-settlement-contest-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old Indian Boy Wins NASA Prize for His Model of Elevator to Connect Earth with Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The world had been talking about the potential space tourism to Mars until India flipped over a page and turned the focus to the Moon recently.<\/strong> The Moon has been the talk of the space town since an 18-year-old Indian boy from Chennai proposed to make human settlement possible on the Moon by connecting earth with its sub planet through cost-effective elevators.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sai Kiran P., a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/chennai-boy-advay-ramesh-won-google-community-impact-award-for-gps-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chennai<\/a><\/span> city student, won the second prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest 2017 by outwitting other entries in the Grade 12 category. His award-winning thesis titled \u2018Connecting Moon, Earth and Space\u2019 and \u2018HUMEIU Space Habitats\u2019 on centripetal acceleration to transport humans to the Moon from earth for a feasible interplanetary human settlement has catapulted India to a global attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chennai-Boy-Sai-Kiran-P-Wins-NASA-Ames-Space-Settlement-Contest-2017.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16388 size-full\" title=\"18-year-old Indian Boy Wins NASA Prize for His Model of Elevator to Connect Earth with Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chennai-Boy-Sai-Kiran-P-Wins-NASA-Ames-Space-Settlement-Contest-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Chennai news, Sai Kiran P, NASA Moon prize, NASA space settlement contest, young Indians\" width=\"704\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NASA award-winning Sai Kiran P. started working on the project in 2013 during his stay in Singapore. He took to writing the thesis after his return to Chennai early in 2016. <strong>He not only brainstormed an idea to connect two heavenly bodies but also designed cost-effective elevators to make interplanetary human settlement possible<\/strong>. In his words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSince it is not economically viable, the only other way is to have faultless elevators connecting the Earth to the Moon, which will span a height of 40,000 kms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-chennai-maa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chennai<\/a><\/span> boy emphasized two important aspects of his proposal on transportation of humans from earth to the Moon.<\/strong> The first is design and cost-effectiveness of the proposed elevators between the two celestial bodies. The second is gravity or centripetal acceleration which is a most fundamental requirement of interplanetary human settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transportation of humans to the Moon through special elevators is not the end of the thesis which earned Chennai-based Sai Kiran P. the second prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest 2017. The thesis also proposed to set up governance, agriculture and recreation zones on the Moon. <strong>The thesis came as a potential alternative to the economically inviable transportation of humans to the Moon via rockets for a cosmic distance of 40,000 kms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alongside Sai Kiran P., a total of 138 students of different grades from different parts of India stood out in different categories of the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest 2017<\/strong> held by NASA Ames Research Center, San Jose State University, and the National Space Society (NSS). Two students of the 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade &#8211; Shashwat G. and Ankita P. from New Delhi \u2013 won the grand prize of the 2017 NASA Space Settlement Contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Travel Beats is an Indian community portal by Indian Eagle. We celebrate the achievements of young Indians across the world and publish the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/indian-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Diaspora news<\/a><\/span> besides sharing updates on air travel, India tourism, US visa and immigration.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world had been talking about the potential space tourism to Mars until India flipped over a page and turned the focus to the Moon recently. 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