Singapore undergrad over the moon after US space agency Nasa buys his drawings for publicity campaign

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SINGAPORE - Mr Jarrod Chua happily indulged his hobby of drawing planet-themed comics after being issued a stay-home restriction order when he was doing his national service in June 2020.

A life-long space enthusiast, his hobby also helped to ward off boredom.

"Then it started to get more serious, and I was surprised that they wanted to pay me because I would have been happy if they didn't pay me as well."The agency contacted him in July 2020 for permission to repost one of his drawings linked to Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope. PHOTO: COURTESY OF JARROD CHUA

His fascination with space began as a boy. His parents took him to the library, where he would flip through picture books about space. He moved on to astronomy-related books when he was older, and still keeps up with the latest space-related developments through online articles and podcasts. His flair for drawing led him to enrol in a business innovation and design diploma course at the Singapore Polytechnic, where he picked up graphic design.

 

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Congrats to him. He made Singaporeans proud. He put Singapore on the NASA map (attention). Lol.

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