Feel-good Story

From Bad Astronomy Blog

Kids are such a joy when it comes to science. They have a natural curiosity, and love the idea of other worlds and traveling through space. When you find kids that have an even larger dollop of that drive, it should be kindled, encouraged.

Here’s your chance to help do just that. Two fifth grade students from Indiana, Cameron Wade and Billy Shannon, both 11 years old, have an experiment that will launch onboard a suborbital NASA rocket. It’s part of a partnership between their school and NASA. The problem is, the grant they have doesn’t cover their own travel to Virginia to see the rocket launch!

Astronomer Phil Plait put up a paypal link to contribute, and within hours raised a thousand dollars.

Now the kids and their teacher will fly to Virginia to watch their rocket launch.

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