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In a Higher Space

astha, a Class 3 student at the Government Upper Primary School in Hasudi Ausanpur village in the Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, had heard from her grandparents that an old lady on the moon runs a mill there. Then, she saw the moon through the telescope of the space lab set up in her school. Excited, Aastha now tells her friends that there are only potholes on the earth’s natural satellite. She can also tell them about aeroplanes, drones and the

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