{"id":245,"date":"2013-01-03T03:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdss.org.pk\/ka\/?p=245"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:38:42","slug":"trip-to-nasa-space-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/2013\/01\/03\/trip-to-nasa-space-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to NASA Space Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/ka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/Nasa-Space-Camp-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nasa Space Camp 1\" class=\"wp-image-373\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><\/u><\/strong>I am Ahmed Hafeez student of class metric. I was not good at English when I joined<strong> English Access Micro scholarship Program<\/strong> .Afterwards I was able to speak in a good manner and I was able to write. My access co-coordinator gave my name for <strong>USA NASA SPACE CAMP 2015 <\/strong>as an applicant of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was firstly interviewed by Mr. Usman Hashmi. I was also selected for the final interview in <strong>US CONSULATE KARACHI<\/strong>. I was happy to be there that I am capable for the final interview. Only 15 students were selected for the final interview and I was also among those 15 students. I was proud that I was among those 15 students. We were interviewed by two Americans. It was a great moment. On next day I got a call that I am selected for this program. I was happy and excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I traveled to Islamabad for visa interview. By the grace of God I got my visa. In Islamabad I met with other campers too and it was great to be with them. Only 24 students were selected from all over the Pakistan.&nbsp; On eighth of August we departed from Islamabad to Doha then to Chicago and Chicago to Huntsville, Alabama. In Alabama I had my space camp and it was pleasure for me to be there. I was treated there as a real astronaut. I got missions there just like real astronauts. I got my flight suit .On my flight suit I got my name tag. I had three missions there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alpha mission<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bravo mission<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whole day extended mission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The missions were hard and my responsibility was MISSION SPECIALIST. My job was to repair satellite. I was wearing a very heavy suit and it was hot. It was hard and I had to work on a satellite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To design a rocket and to have safe landing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To purify water<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To save egg from 1400 heat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/ka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/Nasa-Space-Camp-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nasa Space Camp 2\" class=\"wp-image-374\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hard for me but I did it. I succeeded in all of my projects and I was awarded outstanding camper award. It was a pleasure for me. On fourteenth of August we had our graduation ceremony. We got our certificate and were graduated from NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we went to Washington D.C by bus.&nbsp; It was a beautiful day we visited White House, Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Memorial, Pakistan Embassy, Us Department of State, Air and Space Museum .I was also interviewed by a Balochi channel. On 18 of August we departed from Washington to Doha and to Islamabad and said good bye to America. I am thankful to my school that they gave us such an opportunity&nbsp;&nbsp; and to <strong>i-earn <\/strong>that they gave such chance for the great experience. I will always be missing&nbsp;&nbsp; those days and friends. This trip connected me with thousands of people. Now coming back from this trip I am a better human. Thanks to my school and&nbsp;&nbsp; i- earn .I will always be missing my friends or campers I spent great time with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/ka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/Nasa-Space-Camp-3.jpg\" alt=\"Nasa Space Camp 3\" class=\"wp-image-375\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/ka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/Nasa-Space-Camp-4.jpg\" alt=\"Nasa Space Camp 4\" class=\"wp-image-376\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking my email as routine matter, when I was surprised to see an email from the US Embassy. The embassy has sent a congratulatory note on my selection for the one-week Space Camp in USA and had also requested me to fill the visa form. Stunned I went directly to our principal, Ms. Sobia Alam. I requested her to allow me to sit for another hour in the computer lab so that I could fill out the USA visa form as I didn\u2019t have internet as home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,8,9,10,12,13],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korangi-academy","category-success-stories","tag-korangi-academy","tag-nasa","tag-pakistan","tag-space-camp","tag-trip","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdss.org.pk\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}