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Artemis II launch 'thrilling' to watch_ young space enthusiast · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: And the Artemis two mission.
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  Speaker 2: It really is creating excitement not here in Canada only,
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  Speaker 2: but also around the world, inspiring the next generation of
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  Speaker 2: space enthusiasts. We do have a thirteen year old, a
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  Speaker 2: Siddarth Patel, already breaking ground in his own right, our
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  Speaker 2: next guest here. Last year, he discovered two new asteroids.
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  Speaker 2: This morning, as we've reached him in London in Ontario,
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  Speaker 2: so much more exciting things to talk about, including the
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  Speaker 2: launch earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: Sidarth, thank you so much for talking to us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me today.
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  Speaker 2: My colleague Mark and I have been talking about just
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  Speaker 2: how exciting this mission is.
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  Speaker 1: How exciting was.
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  Speaker 2: It for you to see that rocket on the launch
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  Speaker 2: pad and see it take off touder space.
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  Speaker 4: It was really thrilling when the rocket was on the
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  Speaker 4: pad and when the boosters, like when the boosters actually
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  Speaker 4: ignited the force of it, eight.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty million pounds of thrust.
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  Speaker 4: It was so cool, so much power, basically like lifting
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  Speaker 4: a whole football field one hundred kilometers in the air,
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  Speaker 4: and there's so much thrust and so much, so much
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  Speaker 4: excitement in the air. It was just truly amazing, and
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  Speaker 4: a mission like this hasn't happened in over fifty years,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a really historical mission of artem is two.
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  Speaker 2: And I love to hear how excited you are because
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  Speaker 2: we've been hearing so much from astronauts, seasoned people within
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  Speaker 2: the space industry, and to see you, this young person
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years old, who already knows so much about space,
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  Speaker 2: is really inspiring.
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  Speaker 1: And you do know a lot about space.
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  Speaker 2: You've been watching this guy since you were just a
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  Speaker 2: little little boy, about five years old. I see a
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  Speaker 2: telescope behind you there. What has the highlight been for
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  Speaker 2: you so far as someone who really has been watching
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  Speaker 2: space for years?
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  Speaker 4: A highlight because one day I went to a dark
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  Speaker 4: side skysite and when I looked up, there were thousands
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  Speaker 4: of stars, and that really that I was like, there's
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  Speaker 4: so many.
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  Speaker 3: Stars in this vast universe. I have to just go
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  Speaker 3: and explore them all. And I know that was really
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  Speaker 3: a breathtaking experience.
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  Speaker 2: It really does remind us that we are just a
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  Speaker 2: tiny being here in what is a massive universe hard
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  Speaker 2: to wrap our heads around. I know that you want
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  Speaker 2: to be an astronaut when you grow up, just like
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy Hanson, and you already have some similarities with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's from the same region as.
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  Speaker 2: You, London, Ontario, and just like you, he was dreaming
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  Speaker 2: about going to the moon one day. How has this
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  Speaker 2: really inspired you in imagining yourself actually fulfilling that dream.
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  Speaker 4: Jeremy Hanson is really a big role model for me.
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  Speaker 4: I really like he's such a huge inspiration for me
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  Speaker 4: and a lot more people.
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  Speaker 3: And he started just like any one of us.
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  Speaker 4: He actually he one day he was actually reading an
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  Speaker 4: encyclopedia and he actually found an image of an astronaut,
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  Speaker 4: of a Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and that image
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  Speaker 4: really stayed in his head. And then he had actually
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  Speaker 4: a treehouse and he imagined that as a rocket ship.
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  Speaker 4: So he started getting more interest in space. He actually
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  Speaker 4: participated in the Air Cadets at the age of twelve,
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  Speaker 4: and then after that he got his lighter pilot license,
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  Speaker 4: then he got his pilot's license. Then he went on
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  Speaker 4: to getting a degree in space and science and then
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  Speaker 4: getting masters in physics, which was really cool, and then
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  Speaker 4: he got his fighter pilot license. And then after all
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  Speaker 4: of that, ye he finally got admitted to the Canadian
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  Speaker 4: Space Agency. And when he got admitted into this Canadian
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  Speaker 4: Space Agency.
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  Speaker 3: There was like lots.
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  Speaker 4: Of rigorous training there, and after seventeen years of rigorous training,
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  Speaker 4: he's actually living his dream right now in space, floating
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  Speaker 4: right now, and go into the movie.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing. I think you should teach your own
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  Speaker 1: course to.
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  Speaker 2: Children about all that we know about Jeremy Hanson because
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  Speaker 2: you know so much about him. You have your own
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  Speaker 2: achievements though, and you were charting your own course, you
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  Speaker 2: discover not one but two asteroids.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, how cool was that?
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  Speaker 4: It was really cool to actually discover two asteroids in space.
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  Speaker 3: So basically how it started out, I.
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  Speaker 4: Was looking for new space opportunities and then I saw
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  Speaker 4: I found something called.
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  Speaker 3: Citizen Science Project.
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  Speaker 4: Citizen Science project because they're basically real world space challenges
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  Speaker 4: that anyone can actually solve it. And so basically I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to participate in that. Uh, since there're lit space,
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  Speaker 4: and I was looking for campaigns until like across the
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  Speaker 4: campaign where you can actually discover an asteroid, I was
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  Speaker 4: really like, I really want to do that, and then
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  Speaker 4: I immediately signed up for that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Then I got four images from telescope at Hawaii called
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  Speaker 4: pants Stars, and then I had to process those images
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  Speaker 4: and discover an asteroid through those images.
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  Speaker 2: And we're actually looking at some of your photos that
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  Speaker 2: you took yourself as you're speaking.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so uh, these are some of the images. And
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  Speaker 4: so basically then I really actually I started actually looking
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  Speaker 4: through the images. It was really like time consuming, but
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  Speaker 4: I really loved the experience of discovering the asteroids. And
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  Speaker 4: then there's actually a process included. So basically, when I
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  Speaker 4: give the asteroid coordinates to the International Astronomical Search collaboration
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  Speaker 4: by NASA, they will review the images and then give
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  Speaker 4: the coordinates to NPC, which is the Minor Planet Center,
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  Speaker 4: and they will review those coordinates and the orbit of
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  Speaker 4: the asteroid for one year of continuous visualization. And after
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  Speaker 4: one year they'll give the provisional designations. And there's only
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  Speaker 4: one percent of those preliminary detections that have been to
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  Speaker 4: the one percent provisional, and my two asteroids are provisional.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Sa Darth, I love your enthusiasm. You have the smarts,
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  Speaker 2: the curiosity, and you have the optimism for what is
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  Speaker 2: out there to be discovered in space. The qualities of
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  Speaker 2: a future astronaut we look.
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  Speaker 1: Forward to everyone. Remember his face.
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  Speaker 2: We may't be talking to him in a couple of decades.
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  Speaker 2: SI Darth Patel just thirteen years old as space enthusiast,
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  Speaker 2: joining us from London, Ontario this morning.