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NEW: ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher expressed his respect and interest in the team and their idea to create such a competition in Europe by email on 7.4.2025. Negotiations are already underway.

Reports of the Rovernauts (link)

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Finally, they are going on their way to the USA again. Feelings are mixed, much has changed in world politics. If you think back during the flight across the Atlantic, then all the signs suddenly fit together. As the leader of an international team, you have felt disadvantaged and excluded since the summer of 2017. Now it fits. It was DT's first year in office. Since then, this competition has not been as fun as before - and it has been steadily losing educational quality and creative joy since then. While teamwork and cooperation were promoted as core values of NASA until 2017, more and more rules have crept in since then to prevent exactly this from happening to international teams. This also lost the cohesion and willingness to cooperate, as other educational institutions naturally did not have the insight into the inner workings at NASA that von Puttkamer once showed me.

 

I have tried to keep this away from the students, but this year I have been open with them, a fact that is not easy. This new approach is already clearly measurable in the immensely increased effort to inspire and win over team members. In the meantime, it is not so much the students who turn out to be unsuitable, but above all parents and schools who think they have to know everything better. Thin-skinned is that. In spite of everything, tearing down bridges – no, not with me. We build bridges and maintain them as best we can.
So you don't notice anything of the customs roar from the White House here when you arrive. The roar is limited to a storm around us with everything you could wish for: strongly wobbling plane, slumping down 4000 meters into almost low flight, thunderstorms, heavy rain and finally flooding. A tornado also raged in the neighboring states. There were deaths.

 

But the living here in the USA, which now appears so different to the outside world, continues to take its usual course. The people of Alabama are courteous, friendly and relaxed, as always. Every now and then you talk casually and dismissively about "some bangers you had to experience", laugh again and move on. Or you avoid the conversation altogether.

 

So we arrive at Huntsville Airport at night after a 24-hour journey in sultry warmth, are welcomed by NASA engineer Terry, get our rental car and fall into bed dead tired after a 20-minute drive. There was thunderstorm all night and that didn't stop much until Monday night.

 

We started with a minimum of 2 students and still have 11-year-old Jesco with us. Although he does not have the required age of at least 14 years, he can be considered a full-fledged team member thanks to his technical experience and practice. He is simply needed, as you can read from his reports.

 

During the preparation for this race, I tried to rely on our international relations as well. Before the pandemic, I traveled around the world several times as the one who had opened the door to NASA for international educational institutions together with Prof. von Puttkamer. But the 1st and now 2nd term of office of DT are already showing significant damage, also in the regulations for this competition, which resonates with the desire for a new own and, above all, fair competition for all teams in Europe. It's my 18th participation and this is the 26th team after 46 rovers built with students. So it's not that we're inexperienced.

 

Nevertheless, the integration of a comrade-in-arms from Brazil ultimately failed because of her parents, who do not have this international experience and are obsessed with fear. But the involvement of Hazel, an 18-year-old student from Washington DC, worked. She attends McKinley Technical High School as our long-standing educational partner in the USA and wants to become an engineer. Her father works for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

 

We only met Hazel here in Alabama, on Monday. But that happened quickly, that's what young people are known for. The two girls, Cosma and Hazel, are the same age and get along at least as well as I do with their father. And so, for the 18th time in a row, an adventure begins that has long since determined our lives over 3 decades, produced many excellent young people and yet is not spared from all unthinkable ups and downs. Cosma fell flat into bed with food poisoning on Tuesday, Hazel struggled with a migraine on Wednesday. Somehow it feels like the last participation for the first time, but that can only be a feeling.

 

We have been fighting here for 18 years and now once again "Against All Odds".

 

Rover AssemblySo the 4 students and 2 fathers assembled the rover on Monday in a record time of 7 hours. We used the sunny Tuesday and Wednesday for tuning and photo sessions, a round trip and the evening for a dinner with US friends. All of this welded the team together.

 

Tomorrow, NASA will open the gates of the NASA Rover Challenge for the 31st time. We will set up our pit lane at 12 o'clock, because a thunderstorm is forecast for the afternoon. Then there will be a VIP dinner for all teams under the hanging moon rocket Saturn V. The race will then take place on Friday and Saturday, which will also be broadcast live on Youtube. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday evening, April 12, i.e. Space Day with the 64th anniversary of the Gagarin launch.

 

Let's keep our fingers crossed for the team!

 

Live broadcasts:
Live Stream Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/QVrDWzvyFFk?si=oA8IYdb7CY17zS00
Live Stream Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/6EIgTYwUHiA?si=ybFonBaCboL-xOkh
Livestream Award Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/live/U8hfuWji528?si=VCNzncSIxSM_dxhn

 

Activity report Rovernauts on HERC 2025 (US trip)

 

Saturday, 5.4.25, outbound journey (24h)
06:00 Start at Leipzig Airport
08:50 connection flight in Frankfurt
11-18:00 Chicago (local time)
20:00 Huntsville Al
22:00 Apartment
23:00 Night's rest

 

Sunday, 6.4.25, Preparation
-Sleep in, during thunderstorms
-8 a.m. shopping at Wal☆Mart
-9 a.m. breakfast-10 a.m. prepare workshop
-1 p.m. noon-2 p.m. Hazel comes, conversations
-4 p.m. round trip Monte Sano, see rocket, TV Channel 31, Puttkamer-House
-5 p.m. City Center with Big Spring Park, ducks, catfish, skate board, downtown
-7 p.m. dinner, reports, bed

 

Monday, 7.4.25, assembly of the moonbuggy
8h Getting up
8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Hazel is coming, departure
9:30 a.m. Start of assembly in the workshop
- Installation of a new spring in the front axle
- Replacement of the old rubber rings on the wheels
- Chains, seats, lamps
4:30 p.m. finished after 7 hours
5:00 p.m. shopping
9:00 p.m. Dinner

 

Tuesday, 8.4.25, Completion of the Moonbuggy & Photos
- Sun since 6 a.m.
- getting up, having breakfast
- 9 a.m. meeting with Hazel, Cosma is sick, has to stay at home
- 9:30 a.m. at the workshop
- checking and tightening everything, fenders, seats, chain swapping
- mounting cameras, flexing new camera mount, welding, drilling, painting
- interviews done
- around 12 o'clock everything ready, test drive in the yard, cleaning up with cameras
- cleaning up the workshop, packing everything for the race
- suitcase in car
- moonbuggy on trailer from chip
- Leander drives with Chip in the jeep
- 3-4 p.m. photo session at the Space Center
- round trip to the race site, still everything construction site
- 4:30 p.m. at the house, changing, repairing skateboard
- 6:30-7-3 p.m. at the Tennessee River, (Ditto Landing) with sunset and nice weather
- 8 p.m. back and reports

 

Wednesday, 9.4.2025. Excursions & photo sessions, media work
- 7 h getting up
- 8 h breakfast, meeting, media work
- 10 h departure
- 10:30 - 11 h Space Schop
- 11 - 12h Photo Session Team Portraits
- 12:15 - 12:30h from Braun Research Hall
- 13 h Lunch- Media Work
- 18-20 h Buffet 88

 

Thursday 10.04.2025, Set-up of the pit lane
- 11h Meeting at the workshop for transport
- 12h Set-up of the team stand

 

NASA-Event-Schedule
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Team Check-in and team pit area
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Teams Walk the Course Aviation Challenge
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Mandatory Team Competition, Expectations & Safety Briefing
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm National Space Club Team Dinner, Saturn V Hall – Davidson Center

Friday, April 11 Race 1
7:00 am – 4:00 pm Rover Mission/Excursion
7:00 am Readiness Reviews
7:30 am HERC Excursion Day 1 Aviation Challenge
8:00 am HERC Sponsorship/VIP Breakfast
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Launch Window Rovernauts, Team #254
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Team Lunch Served
5:00 pm HERC Excursion Course closes

Saturday, April 12 Race 2
7:00 am – 3:30 pm Rover Safety Checks Aviation Challenge
7:30 am HERC – Excursion Day 2 Aviation Challenge
10:00 am – 11:00 pm Launch Window Rovernauts, Team #254
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Team Lunch Served
3:00 HERC Excursion Course closes
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Awards Ceremony Space Camp Operations building, USSRC

 

Sonntag, 13.04.2025, disassembly

 

 
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20 Years of the International Space Education Institute
18 Years of International Teams at NASA

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April 2nd, 2025 Leipzig/Huntsville, Alabama (ISEI) Cosma Heckel is the pilot of the Rovernauts, preparing herself and her team for the NASA Rover Challenge on April 12th, 2025, and is now 18 years young. Her team includes Leander (15) from Grimma, Luiza (18) from Rio de Janeiro, Hazel (18) from Washington, DC, and the young engineer Jesco (11) from Leipzig. Never before has a team represented so much multinationality. Boundaries are blurring.

At the age of 3 months, Cosma was there for the first time when the first international junior team participated in a NASA competition. It was arranged by her parents, Yvonne and Ralf Heckel, together with Leipzig-born NASA scientist Prof. Dr. Jesco von Puttkamer, who served as Director of the International Space Station (ISS) from 1998 to 2012, said: "If we as humanity want to land on Mars, we must train young people in international cooperation. And that's why I'm committed to ensuring that international teams can participate in this competition. Don't let me hang here!"

Team Germany from the International Space Education Institute in Leipzig, led by Thommy Knabe (then 15, now head of HAFLE- Plastics technology Reichenbach), was the first international team and has already won prizes in Huntsville in April 2007. It was the experiences and reports of these and their subsequent participants that triggered an avalanche of enthusiasm. First 2, then 4, then 8, then 32, but today this competition consists of half international teams, all of whom have their origins in Leipzig's summer camps and their exchange programs around the globe.

Cosma has participated every year, even traveling the world with her father and chairman, explaining the Moonbuggy in several languages. At the age of 7, she was already driving it around Leipzig and helping every team wherever she could. Today, with 15 years of participation (the competition was suspended during the pandemic), she is by far the longest-serving participant/pilot in the NASA Roverchallenge. Their teams can look back on 7 podium finishes, 3 world championship titles, 26 participations and a total of 46 vehicles – that alone is a first.

cosmaCosma represents her generation in the Leipzig Youth Parliament, the Youth Council of the US Consulate General in Leipzig, and as a training ambassador for skilled trades at HANDWERK (handcraft). Cosma is a prospective industrial mechanic with a high school diploma from 1st Mould in Pirna. Her teammates from previous years are already studying space-engineering or training to become astronauts.

On April 5th, she will fly to the USA for the last time as a competition participant. She wants to be the first all-girl team on the rover, at least for a complete run. This was a last wish from Jesco von Puttkamer. After that, there are exams, studies, and careers.
The ISEI also sees its mission fulfilled after 18 years of this competition. "We have achieved everything, made the world aware of it, helped shape it, and produced brilliant young scientists. No team can compete with us on this competition course. We're too well-rehearsed for that, and the design has evolved too far over the years of its own evolution. We want to move on, and unfortunately, that's no longer possible here."

ISEI is taking a preliminary farewell tour of several NASA centers with the NASA Rover Challenge team 2025. The young people will once again encounter US and international teams and have the opportunity to prove themselves, meet with astronauts and colleagues of Prof. von Puttkamer in Washington, D.C., and once again, a new generation of students will see a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral. This will be the 12th launch experience in 20 years.

But what's next?

President Ralf Heckel says: "We're celebrating our 20th anniversary this summer. It's time to print these experiences in book form for future generations, to thank our sponsors, and to show that there are no limits and that anything can be achieved when everyone pulls together on one rope."

"We will establish a "Hall of Fame" for the 46 successful Leipzig Moonbuggies and produce with our past drawings a series of electric-powered kits for schools and training workshops around the world, thus launching a new competition in Europe. This is missing here.

We will also leverage our experience and construct inclusion-tandems for Leipzig and Europe, exchange international students, and launch a commercial series for sports, health, and youth. Micromobility has a future not only in space, but especially here on Earth. If it brings even more young people and ideas together, it's worth it."

The International Space Education Institute operates the 2000 sqm Puttkamer Campus in the heart of Leipzig with workshops, laboratories and overnight accommodation for international exchange students.

 

In 20 years, ISEI produced over 3000 press articles in total 30 countries, 500 TV reports and has an archive of around 300,000 photos documenting this extraordinary work.

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Die Rovernauts aus Leipzig sind seit dem 30.5.2023 nun auch bekannt aus der Sendung "Außenseiter-Spitzenreiter"

starbaseDie Rovernauts (ehemals Team Germany mit 17-jähriger Geschichte und 7 Podestplätzen, davon 3 Weltmeistertitel) sind zurück auf dem Rennkurs in Huntsville Alabama. Nach 5 Jahren Pandemie, Reisbeschränkungen und dem damit verbundenen „Wieder-Hochfahren“ der komplexen Logistik, trat unser Team mit nur 3,5 Mitgliedern vom 18.-20. April 2024 wieder an. Auf dem letzten Wettbewerb zum 50. Jubiläum von Apollo 11 im Jahre 2019, kamen die Rovernauts als bestes Team mit einem 1. Platz, also dem Weltmeistertitel nach Hause.

Die damalige Pilotin Firine fuhr den Rover im Alter von 14 Jahren und besuchte ein Jahr zuvor das US-Space Camp, den SpaceX Start des Teleskopes TESS und mit ihrem Team die Embry Riddle University in Daytona, Florida. Heute ist Firine Bugenhagen 19 Jahre alt, studiert im 6. Semester Luft- und Raumfahrt an der TU-Delft und wird ab August dieses Jahres an die Embry Riddle University delegiert. Das ist dann bereits unsere 3. Studentin an dieser Eliteschule, aus der Astronauten und Raumfahrtingenieure hervorgehen. Wie man damit sieht, sind unsere Mitgliedschaft, die Ausbildung und Wettbewerbe nachhaltig und eine gute Vorbereitung für jene die weiterwollen. Das ist auch kein Wunder, denn wir wenden die Empfehlungen vom Prof. Dr. Jesco von Puttkamer an.

Ungeplant kam die Pandemie mit dem Reisebann und der Krieg Russlands gegen friedliebende Menschen und die freie Welt dazwischen. Das mühsam aufgebaute immer überlegene multinationale Netz der Brücken zwischen den Nationen und Generationen hängt seitdem auf einer Seite empfindlich in der Luft. Nur schrittweise wird dieses Loch mit Asien, seinen Partnern, seinen Kontakten und Schülern ausgefüllt. Aber auch der Verlust der beständigen gemeinsamen Zusammenarbeit vor Ort führte zu einem Loch der Nachfolgegeneration bei unseren jüngeren Mitgliedern. Virtuelle Unterrichtseinheiten können Praxis, Hands-On und Face-To-Face nicht ersetzen.

Die Rovernauts hatten es also während der Pandemie überhaupt nicht leicht. Es wurde mit Mindestbesetzung CAD gelernt, 3D-Druck und die Werkstatt ausgebaut, also das Feuer brennen gelassen. Aber zu einem Mitgliederzuwachs unter der jungen Generation führte das wegen des komplexer gewordenen Schulalltages nicht. Das Sommercamp 2023 war zwar intensiv und es kamen auch einige Schüler aus der Ferne, aber schnell wurde klar, dass das Homeschooling den Nachwuchs von der Praxis entfremdete. Es wurde absehbar, dass sich kein Team für die Konstruktionsanforderungen eins Rovers bilden konnte. Ersatzweise wurde dann 3D-Druck, Modellbau und die Erweiterung der Werkstatt mit Holzbau vermittelt. Das schuf dann eine gute logistische Basis, aber die Gruppe zerstreute sich im ausgehenden Sommer wegen der Entfernungen innerhalb Deutschlands wieder.

Erst auf den letzten Pfiff und mit einem Aufruf in Presse und TV gelang es der Teamleiterin Cosma Heckel (heute 17 und zum letzten Rennen nur 12 Jahre jung) noch ein Team mit 2 weiteren Teilnehmern ihrer Berufsschule zusammen zu schweißen. Das passierte erst im Januar 2024, also bereits 6 Monate nachdem andere Teams bereits mit schriftlichen Arbeiten Punkte bei NASA sammelten und fleißig konstruierten.

Wegen der beständig fortgeführten Weiterentwicklung zur Pandemie konnte das neue Team Rovernauts 2024 in den Winterferien schnell an Fahrt aufnehmen. Unterstützend standen schnell wieder die Unternehmen Dreherei Günter Jakob, Metallverarbeitung HOLL, Sattlerei Kübler, Sandstrahlerei Doerffer und die Firma Althaus Galvanik und Pulverbeschichtungen dahinter.

Vor allem aber gewann das Team schnell Aufwind durch die Unterstützung der Handwerkskammer zu Leipzig und deren Einladung zur Mitteldeutschen Handwerksmesse Leipzig. Hier konnten Besucher begeistert und weitere Mitglieder der jüngeren Generation gewonnen werden. Eine richtige CAD- und Produktionsstraße wurde vor den 50.000 staunenden Messebesuchern betrieben und es konnte mitgemacht und mitgefahren werden.

Binnen 10 Wochen konnte im Rekordtempo ein komplett neuer Rover in der seit Sommer 2923 neuen Werkstatt geschaffen werden. Hier half der immense 17-jährige Erfahrungsschatz des Vereines mit 45 gebauten und modifizierten Fahrzeugen genauso wie der erstarkende Erfolgswille des Teams. 2 Ferien gingen komplett drauf.

Obwohl das Team bei den schriftlichen Vorbewertungen noch gar nicht mitmachen konnte, entschied man sich für die Fahrt zum Wettbewerb trotz des damit schlechten Scores von 35%. Am Tag der Raumfahrt, also dem 12. April 2024, ging es dann in den Flieger und ein Abenteuer mit 18.000 Flug- und 5.000 Fahr-Kilometern begann. Alle Ereignisse hielten die Teammitglieder in Berichten, Reels und mit Videos fest. Eine Linkliste gibt es oben und unten. Hier sind die Fakten:

Die Teammitglieder
Cosma Heckel (17), betreut durch die Jesco von Puttkamer Schule seit 12 Jahren Pilotin, DuBAS-Lehrling, Industriemechanikerin, Karl-Heine-Schule, ZAW, 1st-Mould Pirna, Ausbildungsbotschafterin der Handwerkskammer zu Leipzig, Mitglied im Jugendparlament Leipzig, Mitglied im Youth Council des US-Generalkonsulates, erfahren in CAD und Technik

Frederik Fichtner (17), betreut durch die Jesco von Puttkamer Schule seit 3 Monaten Co-Pilot, Multitool-Bediener, Fachabiturient, Karl-Heine-Schule

Heidi Claus (18), betreut durch die Jesco von Puttkamer Schule seit 3 Monaten Fachabiturient, Karl-Heine-Schule, Technikerin, Trainerin

Jesco Heckel (10), betreut durch die Jesco von Puttkamer Schule seit 6 Jahren, Grundschüler, 74. Grundschule - dann Gymnasium an der Quartiersschule Ihmelstraße, Techniker, Kameramann, erfahren in CAD und Technik mit Betreuung durch eine Tesla-Ingenieurin

Weiblicher Rover namens OPHELIA
Das Team taufte den Rover direkt vor der Inspektion auf den Namen OPHELIA. Dieser Name lehnt sich an den größten Mond im Uranus-System an. Es ist der erste weibliche Rover. Uranus ist durch seine Neigung von fast 90° der Querschläger im Sonnensystem, wie das Team Rovernauts. Seine Monde sind temporäre Teamspieler, die sich regelmäßig aufreiben und in einem Ringsystem enden, um sich dann wieder neu zu formieren und in einem neuen Team als Monde in neuen Bahnen spielen. Opelia wird in diesem Jahr 3 weitere Schwestern bekommen, welche bereits auf Kiel gelegt sind und im Sommercamp internationalen 2 Schülern und Studenten auf die Bahn helfen sollen.

Technische Daten des Rovers
- Fahrmodus: Länge, Breite, Höhe: 2,20 x 1,29 x 1,00 m
- Faltmodus: Länge, Breite, Höhe: 1,00 x 1,29 x 1,29 m
- Gewicht: 85 kg mit nonpneumatischen Rädern und Multitool, 65 kg mit Fahrrad-Rädern
- Gänge 2 x 14 (2 x Rohloff Speedhub + 1 x Differenzial)
- 2 Personen hintereinander sitzend mit 38 cm Bodenfreiheit zum Körper
- 3 m Sicherheits-Knautschzone durch Faltmechanik
- 210 mm Hydraulik-Scheibenbremse vorn mit Feststellbremse
- gemessene Maximalgeschwindigkeit: 80 km/h
- Odometer, Stoppuhr, 4 Bordcams, 1 Multitool, 12 Liter Druckluftanlage 6,5 bar

Änderungen seit 2019
- komplette Überarbeitung des Fahrwerks vorn und hinten für S-Ply-Blattfedern
- Aluminiumrohr-Sitze mit Rollgurt
- Feststellbremse für Lenkung
- neues Differenzialgetriebe mit Aufhängung
- Kardanwellen aus Karbonfaser-Rohr
- 19-Segmente in den Rädern mit gummiertem Glasfasergewebe und wassergestrahltem Gummiprofil

Ergebnisse der Rovernauts unter 70 Teams
- 1. Platz im Rennen mit 100% Punkten und 3:35m (schnellstes Team ohne Fehler)
- 4. Platz in der Gesamtwertung mit 137 Punkten (wegen der fehlenden Punkte im Vorfeld)
- Most Improved Award (beste Verbesserung zwischen beiden Rennen, Jacobs Industries, 500 US$)
- bestes internationales Team (Preis des ZAW Leipzig, 500€)
- Europameister (Preis der Handwerkskammer zu Leipzig, dotiert mit 600€)

Rovernauts das Team der Herzen
- kleinste Mitgliederzahlt 3,5 (Jesco außer Wertung, weil noch keine 14, aber vollintegriert)
- einziges Team mit Mädchen als Pilot erfolgreich auf dem Kurs
- einziges Team welches nach dem gewerteten Rennen keine technischen Schäden hatte
- Pilotin Cosma startete trotz Schnittverletzung
- 19 Punkte hat sich das Team durch Foto-/Video-Beweislage vor der Jury erkämpft
- Team mit dem meisten Applaus auf der Award Zeremonie

Wie lief das Rennen?
Die Rovernauts waren phänomenal und legten die beste Perfomance hin. Es gibt 2 Durchgänge. Der beste Durchgang wird gewertet. Am 1. Tag brach eine Schweißnaht am Beifahrersitz. Cosma verletzte sich an der rechten Hand, trotz Handschuhe. Dennoch konnten Cosma und Frederik sich für das 2. Rennen qualifizieren, erledigten alle Aufgaben im Kurs und erreichten das Ziel in weniger als 8 Minuten.

Das 2. Rennen war ein Gänsehaut-Event. Die beiden durchfuhren den schweren Kurs absolut souverän und perfekt, ohne Fehler und sammelten bei den Aufgaben alle Punkte. Sie trafen mit einem Zeitvorsprung von 3 Minuten! Im Ziel ein. Kein Team war schneller. Teams mit Null Fehlern und 100% Punkten waren 3 Minuten langsamer. Alle Teams und alle Rennställe waren fassungslos und interessierten sich ab diesem Moment für den Rover „Ophelia“ und die beiden Piloten.

Zur Belohnung ging es auf NASA-Tour und zum Starship von SpaceX
Die anstrengende Woche in Huntsville Alabama wurde mit einer besonderen Exkursion belohnt. Es ging per Auto nach Houston in das Johnson Space Center und anschließend direkt zur SpaceX-Starbase nach Boca Chica. Hier konnte das Starship vom Team und der Rover von den SpaceX-Fans bestaunt werden. Es gab eine Testfahrt über die Starbase am Mechazilla vorbei. Natürlich wurde das Hopper-Haus besucht und ein Termin mit der Stadt South Padre gemacht. Danach ging es wieder zurück, über New Orleans mit dem NASA-Center Michoud Assembly Facility und nach Mississippi zum Stennis Space Center. Nach 5000 km und 5 Tagen mit nächtlichen Fahrten wurde dann der Heimflug angetreten.

 
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press(Leipzig/Kurukshetra, 8.11.2023) Arthur Sommer (18) has now been active in India as an ambassador for the International Space Education Institute for 4 weeks. During this time he has covered more than 6,000 km on the subcontinent, traveled by train from north to south India and back for almost a week and attended over 30 events, trade fairs, scientific institutions and lectures.

Arthur speaks about his experiences with us and NASA in schools, universities, conferences, symposiums and also at a cadet college of the Indian Army. The main focus is on the future in space, jobs and career opportunities. He presents these together with his own experiences from the launch of NASA's moon rocket ARTEMIS 1. He explains the individual phases of a launch and flight to the moon using a self-built model (1:87) of the SLS moon rocket. The young and mature audience is always enthusiastic. An overwiev in Fotos.

At many appearances he is supported by 16-year-old Cosma Heckel, who is then connected via video conference.

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The first four weeks seemed much longer to Arthur, "because you experience so much in a short time here." He receives support from his mentor and teacher Navdeep Singh from the World Space Council India. The International Space Education Institute has built up this partnership over the years and supports the current transformation of over 30 countries into space nations with human capital through world trips for schoolchildren and students.

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Arthur is also a member of the International Space Education Institute's 2024 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge accepted team called the Rovernauts. This team has a successful history of 16 years as the first international participant with 3 world championship titles and 44 lunar car-like vehicles in various variations.

 

As an ambassador for the NASA Artemis Generation, Arthur supports the agency's efforts to promote more science among young people under the name "STEM Engagement".

 

The world tour, a social year for graduating students, is available to members of the International Space Education Institute to gain global life experiences. This not only creates unforgettable experiences for life, but above all builds bridges across supposed boundaries and gives other students a unifying career vision for the future.


translation of the pressarticle from the top:

Arthur Sommer from International Space Education Institute, Germany reached Indri
Space science is a fantastic field full of possibilities.

Indri, 7 November (Nis) Space science is a wonderful field full of possibilities. It contains the lives of many astronauts and their stories of going to space, ranging from failures to successes.

These words were said by Navdeep Singh, President of the World Space Council and Arthur Sommer, member of the International Space Education Institute, Germany. He was addressing as the keynote speaker in a lecture organized on the topic of opportunities in space science under the joint aegis of Employment Cell, Physics Department and Chemistry Department at Shaheed Udham Singh Government College located in village Matak Majri.

PICTURE: He taught students about space rocket Navdeep Singh and Arthur Sommer with students and teachers at Shaheed Udham Singh Government College located in Matak Majri village of Indri.

Along with telling the methods of making it, also explained the ways to reach NASA. College Principal Dr. Vikas Attri welcomed the guests and called upon the students to take inspiration from such personalities.Dr. Suresh Kumar, in-charge of Placement Cell, coordinated the program and conducted the stage. Dr. Deepa Sharma did it.

Arthur Sommer, who came from Germany, shared his NASA experiences with the students. He gave details of the structure of the space rocket and explained the method of making the rocket.

Dr. Bohti Dhanda, Dr. Gulab, Dr. Raj Kumar and Dr. Sumit Goyal were present in organizing the program.

 
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miniLeipzig students have been doing it for a long time since 2007 and have won top prizes at NASA with their now over 30 self-built moon buggies. There have been 3 world championship titles by 2019. Some are now aspiring astronauts, space engineers but also successful junior managers of regional craft businesses. Cosma Heckel (16) saw the new NASA moon rocket SLS launch live with the Bremen Orion service module and decided to pursue a trade with a high school diploma (DuBAS). She leads the current NASA team from Germany and wants to promote crafts, technical careers and engineering in schools. For this purpose, she has modified a 1:10 model kit of such a moon buggy made of stainless steel and is offering it to schools together with the Chamber of Crafts and involved training companies.

cosmasheetHere's how it works: 50 kits are immediately available. Then there are other modules such as coloring, 3D printing and electronics. The first schools to register before Christmas will receive an exclusive lecture from Cosma. The best young designers receive an invitation to join their NASA team and begin a breathtaking time with travel through many craft businesses, joint design and of course exciting training. In April 2024, the best participants will travel to NASA in the moon rocket city of the USA and will be the only team to represent the capabilities of the European Union.

On November 1st In 2023, she will present the new 1:10 kits at a press conference and will also show the mobile 1:1 version that starred in the US film adventure “Space Warriors”.

Cosma get accreditation as vocational-training ambassador!


lvzThe occasion was today's appointment of Cosma as an ambassador for training in the craft, made by the President Mr. Matthias Forßbohm, the Chief Executive Mr. Volker Lux and the press officer Dr. Andrea Wolter, the Chamber of Crafts Leipzig. This happened during the press conference of the Chamber of Crafts for the publication of the economic figures and the start of a special program for career orientation in schools in which Cosma plays a leading role with her self-modified 1:10 models of the Moonbuggys.

The kits, which were laser-cut at the HOLL metalworking company, can now be ordered by any school for learning motor skills at the Leipzig Chamber of Crafts. The fully assembled, creatively designed and upgraded models with 3D-Print and an electric circuit will then be awarded prizes by Cosma and a jury of experts. Prizes and an invitation to the next NASA Rover Challenge in the USA will be awarded.

On November 13th the Chamber of Crafts in Leipzig will present Cosmas educational set nationalwide.

The radio report focuses on the dual vocational training with A-level-exam in Saxoinia (DuBAS).
The whole radio.report (in german).

 
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