Boy Assists NASA

IdeaForNASAA 7-year-old named Julian learned that the Spirit Mars rover was stuck and decided to help. He grabbed a pencil and sheet of paper and put his mind to work. Julian sent to NASA a drawing that shows the rover’s camera used as a tripod to lift the rover out of Martian sand.

NASA is going to try Julian’s idea, and they have sent him an award for ingenuity. Spirit launched in 2003 and has been exploring Mars since early 2004.

Click here to read more.

9 Comments

  1. It’s cool that someone just 7 years old could help with somthing that adults couldn’t
    think of a solution for. I wonder what the award was.?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.