AstroLuca in connection with 400 children from 12 schools in Rome, in the event organized today at the Italian Space Agency (ASI). "It is a beautiful and intense day for the boys who arrived here," said the president of ASI, Giorgio Saccoccia.
Before connecting with the astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), in fact, experts are scheduled to talk about the space and the many activities that are conducted in orbit. "Space - said Saccoccia to the boys - is not only exploration and astronauts, but our daily life is full of the results of space activities".
From the Space Station at 13.55 the astronaut Luca Parmitano will dialogue with the boys, who are between 13 and 16 years old. There are also children who, led by experts from the universities of Milan, Florence, Kaiser Italy and Asi, organized the XenoGriss experiment, in which tadpoles arrived on the orbital station to study tissue regeneration. The experiment was selected as part of the ASI call for proposals "Youth ISS Science 2019" (YiSS) to encourage collaboration between universities and upper secondary schools on issues related to space research.
Activated on 9 December 2019 by Luca Parmitano himself, the experiment returned to Earth at the beginning of January and the children, with their tutors, will still be responsible for analyzing the results.
AstroLuca in connection with the student-scientists DIRECT
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In Rome in 400 at Asi, also creators of tests on space tadpoles (ANSA)
