Photo: Sitting in the front row, Rep. Adam Schiff, NASA astronaut Gregory Errol Chamitoff, Saro Armenian, of Altadena, and his son Shant Armenian, 9, a student at Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School in Glendale on Friday, January 13, 2012. Credit: Tim Berger/Staff Photographer, Pasadena Sun.
by Tiffany Kelly
Pasadena Sun
Last year, 9-year-old Shant Armenian wrote a letter to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) asking the congressman to invite an astronaut to his school. Schiff often receives letters from students, but this one was different, he said.
“Shant wrote me a wonderful, moving letter,” he said. “I get a lot of letters from kids on a variety of things. It was clear that he had deep, abiding interest in space and in science, which I can relate to, because I share it.”
On Friday, Schiff granted the Altadena student his wish. He came to Vahan and Anoush Chamlian Armenian School in La Crescenta with NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, a Caltech alum who gave a presentation on his experience working at the International Space Station.
