23-01-2022, 09:22 AM
Amelia Teng
Education Correspondent
PUBLISHED JAN 22, 2022, 5:00 AM SGT
SINGAPORE - Mr Jarrod Chua happily indulged his hobby of drawing planet-themed comics after being issued a stay-home restriction order when he was doing his national service in June 2020.
He then put the drawings on an Instagram page called @spaceytales.
A life-long space enthusiast, his hobby also helped to ward off boredom.
To Mr Chua's surprise, his Instagram account attracted about 1,000 followers in just one month and now has rocketed to more than 9,000.
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Now, Mr Chua, 22, is over the moon that his artwork has caught the eye of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or Nasa.
The United States space agency contacted him in July 2020 for permission to repost one of his drawings linked to Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope - a US$9 billion (S$12 billion) instrument designed to look farther into the cosmos.
A few months later, Nasa got in touch with him again.
This time, it asked to work with him to modify one of his illustrations into a postcard format, to use in its public outreach efforts.
In return, Nasa paid him $1,000.
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The feedback he got was unexpected, he said. "I received direct messages from people around the world supporting what I did, asking if I sold merchandise and if they could buy a book of my drawings.
"Some pre-school teachers from overseas e-mailed me to say they liked my work and used it to teach their kids."
Drawings and more info at: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/p...y-campaign
Education Correspondent
PUBLISHED JAN 22, 2022, 5:00 AM SGT
SINGAPORE - Mr Jarrod Chua happily indulged his hobby of drawing planet-themed comics after being issued a stay-home restriction order when he was doing his national service in June 2020.
He then put the drawings on an Instagram page called @spaceytales.
A life-long space enthusiast, his hobby also helped to ward off boredom.
To Mr Chua's surprise, his Instagram account attracted about 1,000 followers in just one month and now has rocketed to more than 9,000.
。。。。。。
Now, Mr Chua, 22, is over the moon that his artwork has caught the eye of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or Nasa.
The United States space agency contacted him in July 2020 for permission to repost one of his drawings linked to Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope - a US$9 billion (S$12 billion) instrument designed to look farther into the cosmos.
A few months later, Nasa got in touch with him again.
This time, it asked to work with him to modify one of his illustrations into a postcard format, to use in its public outreach efforts.
In return, Nasa paid him $1,000.
。。。。。。
The feedback he got was unexpected, he said. "I received direct messages from people around the world supporting what I did, asking if I sold merchandise and if they could buy a book of my drawings.
"Some pre-school teachers from overseas e-mailed me to say they liked my work and used it to teach their kids."
Drawings and more info at: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/p...y-campaign
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