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Rocket science fans from rural Tamil Nadu look up to outer space

If all goes to plan, Class 12 students J Parthiban and G Gopinath and their science teacher, M Kavitha, will be spending a week in Russia next month, touring, among other sites, the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Moscow. The trio will be representing Government Higher Secondary School in Ayyampalayam, Musiri district, as part of a 75-member team of students, teachers and officials of Tamil Nadu’s School Education department.