Indian wins NASA contest

This inspiring 18-year-old Indian boy is in high school... Oh and he built the lightest satellite ever sent to space by NASA!

Transcript

00:00This contest was judged by the scientists and engineers in NASA.

00:06One of the scientists said, we nearly fell out of the chair.

00:11The whole weight, including the payload and the ballast, will be 64 grams.

00:30A lot of people are asking how we built this.

00:39Actually we are using a reinforced carbon fiber polymer.

00:43That's why we are using 3D printing technology.

00:50We came with the idea of creating a small satellite before 8 or 9 months.

00:54At the same time we came to know about this contest.

00:57So we thought, why not we send our idea to this competition.

01:08By breaking their limits of their imagination, they change the world.

01:17So we sent that and we selected for the launch.

01:21And today we made history.