Guillena (Seville), (EFE).- Five students from the Nuestra Señora del Carmen school in Torre de la Reina, a district of the town of Guillena (Seville), have left for the central facilities in Houston (United States) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as the culmination of the educational project of science and aerospace field ‘Traveling the world’.
It is a trip in which the five students travel with their teacher, Herminio Rodríguez, and one of their parents, from an educational center. That works to instill in students the scientific method from an early age.
According to sources from the educational center, until June 15, they will visit the NASA Space Center in Houston and the Johnson Center. And they will be received by the Spanish engineer from NASA, Eduardo García Llama, head of guidance and control of the Orion rocket of the Artemis program. Its objective is to implement a continuous and sustainable human presence on the Moon, as a prelude to a future manned mission to the planet Mars.
The expedition will deliver to the Spanish engineer a “school lunar constitution, as something symbolic.” That is part of the educational project of science and aerospace field promoted by the school. And, after the delivery of the lunar document, the five students will delve into learning science and the world of space exploration inherent in downtown Houston.
“Travelling the world”
At the Johnson Center, where the NASA control center is located, which coordinates and controls all manned flights in the United States and also the international space station, they will learn about how it works. In a visit that includes a reception at the General Consulate of Spain in Houston.
The educational project ‘Traveling the world’ has been brewing for months. And it has had the support of the educational community of Torre de la Reina, the Guillena City Council, the Education Delegation of the Junta de Andalucía and the Ministry of Education. In addition to having the support of numerous companies and private entities.
It is not the first major project for the Torre de la Reina school. Since in 2019 he was in contact with the International Space Station. In 2020, he held a videoconference with the Gabriel de Castilla scientific base, in Antarctica. And in 2022, in Egypt, the ‘Touching History’ initiative culminated, for the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has congratulated the students and teachers of the center. And she, through Twitter, she has paraphrased the first American woman to travel to space, Sallly Raid saying that “science is fun, it’s curiosity.” And she has congratulated herself because in the Sevillian school “you know it, they know it and you practice it”. EFE