While the world has been riveted by the escapades of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, a group of Swiss primary school children has been eagerly preparing their own mission to the red planet.
Their rocket is actually a bus, with images of astronauts astride a spaceship heading towards a bright red sphere covering the windows, flanked by the message:"Mission Vivalys. Direction Mars".Their destination? A Mars space station conveniently situated a bus-ride away in a secluded wooded area on the outskirts of Lausanne in western Switzerland.
Inside the base, with his helmet -- actually a face-covering scuba-diving mask -- under his arm, Leo says this"analogue mission to Mars" made him all the more eager to see the real thing.In a bid to simulate a true space mission, all the children's meals consist of freeze-dried space food."Our biggest concern is not bringing the virus to Mars," Olivier Delamadeleine, head of the Educalis group that runs the school, told AFP.
I so wish that our kids from the Dusty rural areas were part of this too
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