vijayawada city student jujjuvarapu charles john has been selected for the international air and space program2023 conducted by nasa charles john a brilliant student hailing from a poor family is one of the two students from india selected for the nasa programme as many as 60 students from across the world will participate in the programmeinspired by the stories of astronauts and their achievements charles john an intermediate first year mpc student from vijayawada focused on space research john regularly follows the blogs of astronauts and appears in online competitions conducted by nasajohns poor parents are not in a position to bear the travel expenses and is looking for support from philanthropists his father joshua jujjuvarapu is a preacher now earlier he worked as a daily wager john pressured his father for almost a year to get laptop to continue his space research