Motivating Public/Mass to Explore Space
- Paper number
IAC-06-E5.P.02
- Author
Mr. Amrut Yalagi, The Planetary Society of Youth, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Basavaprabhu Sheeparamatti, The Planetary Society of Youth, India
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Indians have many mythlogical stories about many constellations and stars. Hindu months are based on moon and 27 stars on zodiac. They are very important for many Indians in ritual, religious functions. By prompting them to identify their birth star, really makes them elevated. Similarly conveying them the importance for star gazing with respect to their day-today life makes them to take interest and active participation in space activities. Space activities should be driven by public; their requirements; their dreams and imaginations. Their active participation definitely gives valuable inputs to space scientists. Hence, there is a need of involving common man or public mass by appropriate motivation by organising sky gazing sessions, exhibitions, seminars etc. In this connection, even if the some organisation are able to attract a small percent of qualified engineers/scientists, enthusiastic students, it would result in the creation of a sizable pool of talent in space sciences, which may well determine the future of mankind on this planet. Some simple motivation acts have made the people to take interest in space activities and contribute in exploring the space. We have been using certain methodologies to popularize space science. In this paper the following points are elaborated- 1] Conducting theory sessions on basics of star gazing and conveying importance of sky gazing with respect to day-today life 2] Orgainising stargazing 3] Organising seminars, conferences, workshops, lectures and other academic/popular science activities with special reference to space science 4] Projects - a] model making b] creating and simulating space models and c]rover making competitions
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