A Kashmiri youth from a remote village of the Valley has won approval for two of his projects from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in the United States. <\/p>\n
Asif Ali, who comes from a humble background from a village in Mattan area of south Kashmir district, Anantnag, is studying astronomy at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Kerala, a defence spokesman said here. <\/p>\n
The two projects that Ali will work on include those on estimation of asteroids and the effect of gamma ray emissions. <\/p>\n
\"NASA is supporting his project works and accepting his research idea as a major leap forward in his career,\" the spokesman said. <\/p>\n
Ali, who has done BTech from IIST and is currently doing MS in astronomy from the same college, will be headed to NASA soon to start work on his projects. <\/p>\n
\"I will be flying to NASA, US, soon to start my project work. After I return, I have some more projects in my mind that would cater to telecommunication problems faced by our state in particular and India in general,\" he said. <\/p>\n
Ali is an alumnus of Army Goodwill School at Aishmuqam in Anantnag district and has done his higher studies at Government Higher Secondary School in his native area. <\/p>\n
His father retired as an officer from the Animal Husbandry Department and his mother is a housewife. <\/p>\n
\"I have not been to elite schools of towns and cities. I dreamt of making big in life while studying at my native place in a remote area. However, to fulfil my aspirations, I went to a good college in Kerala under the guidance of brilliant mentors. I worked hard. My core interest was always astronomy,\" he said. <\/p>\n
His achievement was recently acknowledged by the Army, which felicitated him in the presence of engineering students in Anantnag, the spokesman said. <\/p>\n
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